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IN this manner was the Emperour long be∣fore wont, both to behave himself, and to order his Army, before they engaged in a Battel: for he always preferred God before his own Life; and studied to perform all things by his advices; and used all imaginable caution to prevent the slaughter of many men. On which account, he consulted the safety of the Enemies no less, than
that of his own Souldiers. Wherefore, he ad∣monished his own men, when they had been Victors in a Battel, to shew compassion to the vanquished: and, that being men themselves, they ought not to forget the same Nature which they were of. But if at any time he per∣ceived, that the mindes of his Souldiers were greedy of slaughter, he repressed them by a Largess of Gold; giving order, that whoever took one of the Enemy alive, * should have a* 1.1 certain weight of Gold bestowed on him. And this inticement for the preservation of mens lives, was found out by the Emperours prudence. In∣somuch that, very many even of the Barbarians themselves were saved, the Emperour's Gold be∣ing the Ransome of their Lives.
‖ Or, Should be honoured with, &c.