Note 322 — THE AGE OF BRONZE.
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["Eight thousand men had to Asturias march'd Beneath Count Julian's banner.... To revenge His quarrel, twice that number left their bones, Slain in unnatural battle, on the field Of Xeres, where the sceptre from the Goths By righteous Heaven was reft."
Southey's Roderick, Canto XXV. lines 1, 2, 7-11.]