sufferings of their tortured limbs; in place of tears it was their blood that flowed, in place of weeping the blood streamed from their deep-seared flesh.51a 14. But what wounds can be shown here by the vanquished, what cuts in gaping flesh, what crippling of their limbs, when it was not faith that fell in the fight, but loss of faith that forestalled the fight? The fallen has not the excuse that he was forced to the crime when the crime was his own choice. I am not saying this to add to the load