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Nicephorus Blemmydes. Autobiographia sive curriculum vitae necnon epistula universalior. Ed. J. A. Munitiz. (Corpus Christianorum, series Graeca, 13.) Turnhout: Brepols and Louvain: University Press. 1984. Pp. lv + 157. Fr. b. 2300.
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1 Dr Athanassios Angelou has drawn my attention to Nicephorus, Breviarum 52.27 ff., where a group of citizens of Pergamum, before going out to meet the besieging Arabs in 717, are said to have killed a pregnant girl, boiled her foetus in a cauldron, and dipped their Χειρίδεα (gloves or sleeves?) in the liquid. The result was that their arms became paralysed and the Arabs captured the city without a battle.
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