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the Germans were enormous, and almost all their artillery and baggage were captured by the Hussites.[1]
- ↑ Lawrence of Březova, author of a history of the early part of the Hussite wars which has often been quoted in these pages, wrote a quaint and very interesting Latin ballad on the rout at Domážlice. It is here only possible to quote a few lines. Březova writes of the flight—
“O quam turpe diffugium
Tam strenuarum gencium:
Non viso hoste fugere
Totque cara relinquere
Suis in fructum hostibus
Duris atque crudelibus.”Somewhat later Cardinal Cesarini thus addresses the Pope—
“Tandem illi scismatici
Gentis Boemie rustici
Congesserunt exercitum
Paucum inermem frivolum.
Mira tunc res peragitur
Nec ei par conspicitur
In tota sacra pagina.....
Cum nobis appropinquaret
....
Ile malignus populus
....
Spes fugit et consilium.
Terra tremente tremimus,
Nil nisi fugam querimus,
Agente hoc dyabolo
Certe ipsorum domino.”(Published in “Fontes rerum Bohemicarum,” Vol. V, pp. 545–563.)
