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4 +5 | the delights of Capua |
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4 | wallow in pleasure |
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2 | succomb to the delights of Capua |
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the delights of Capua Explanation: At length they reached the gates of Philippopolis, and here Godfrey learned that Hugh of Vermandois, whose coming had been announced to the Greek emperor Alexius by four-and-twenty knights in golden armor, and who styled himself the brother of the king of kings and lord of all the Frankish hosts, was a prisoner within the walls of Constantinople. With Robert of Normandy and Robert of Flanders, with Stephen of Chartres and some lesser chiefs, Hugh had chosen to make his way through Italy; and the charms of that voluptuous land had a greater effect, it seems, in breaking up and corrupting their forces than the delights of Capua had in weakening the soldiers of Hannibal. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2004-01-23 16:34:46 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- One wonders whether the famous delights of Capua did not derive from these wines. They could, without doubt, put a complete Carthaginian army to sleep! http://www.vintageschool.com/displaychapter.asp?CourseID=1&C... D’Artagnan then addressed Porthos: “You must not let the delights of Capua make you forget the real object of our journey to Fontainebleau.” LOUISE DE LA VALLIERE - CHAPTER VII http://www.hoboes.com/html/FireBlade/Dumas/Valliere/Valliere... Reference: http://ragz-international.com/Crusade,%20The%20First.htm |
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