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There was a front yard or fighting-place around this, surrounded by a high wall, and this again by a moat. There was an inner court back of the castle, into which the baron could go for thinking. A chapel was connected with the institution, and this was the place to which he retired for the purpose of putting arnica on his conscience.
The element also appears in the name of the ruler of Ur, Dungi, i.e., 'the legitimate hero, as Sargon is the 'legitimate king. Signifying, according to Jensen, Keils Bibl. 3, 1, p. 25, 'fighting-place'. Published by Delitzsch, Beiträge zur Assyr. So also Jensen, Kosmologie, p. 14, note 3. So Anu appears to have concubines. See above, pp. 92, 93. Inscription C. De Sarzec, pl. 37, no. 5; Trans.
But the town knew worse troubles even than the floods, troubles of the civil wars, when it was a continual fighting-place, where first Puritans thanked God for the blood of the Loyalists, and then Loyalists thanked God for the blood of the Puritans. Many honest citizens lost all their possessions for conscience' sake in those times, and went forth beggared from their native town.
"Why," said they, "should we suffer our native city to be made a mere bulwark and fighting-place for foreign barbarians and desperate men? They have no families to care for, no property to lose, no love for the soil, and no value for their lives. They fight to gratify a thirst for blood or a desire for revenge, and will fight on until Malaga becomes a ruin and its people slaves.
You and I, duke, ought not to think it a great matter to handle ten rascals apiece in this fighting-place, if only we intrench ourselves properly." As he spoke he laid his precious bundle reverently in the hay-cart, where it seemed to sleep as peacefully as if it were in its native cradle, and began piling up the great masses of the bundles of hay in front of him to form a kind of rampart.
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