Kerbogah Tries to Retake Antioch
[9.24.3] Tunc Podiēnsis epīscopus iussit ut adferentur ēvangelia et crux, quātinus iūrāret ille sī hoc esset vērum. Cōnsiliātī sunt omnēs māiōrēs nostrī in illā hōrā, ut iūrārent omnēs sacrāmentum quod nūllus illōrum fugeret neque prō morte neque prō vītā, quamdiū vīvī essent. Prīmus dīcitur iūrāsse Boamundus, deinde comes Sānctī Egidīī, et Rotbertus Nortmannus, ac dux Godefridus, et comes Flandrēnsis. Tancredus vērō iūrāvit ac prōmīsit tālī modō, quia quamdiū sēcum quadrāgintā mīlitēs habēret, nōn sōlum ex illō bellō sed etiam ab Hierosolimītānō itinere nōn esset recessūrus. Nimis autem exsultāvit Chrīstiāna congregātiō, hoc audiēns sacrāmentum.
notes
(June 1098) Adhémar orders the priest to swear that he is not lying about his vision. The leaders swear not to desert, no matter what; this is good for the general morale.
quātinus iūrāret ille: CL would be ut iūrāret ille.
neque prō morte neque prō vītā: emphatic; these are really the same thing. prō means “because of.”
vocabulary
sacrāmentum –ī, n: oath
quadrāgintā: forty