. Saladin and the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. asAsia Minor; he was admittedly the chief of Saracenrulers from the Euphrates to the Nile, and was in-vited by other princes to act as arbiter in theirdisputes. This high position he used for a noblepurpose, whatever motive urged him. He broughtabout a general peace, a Truga Dei, among all thepeoples whom he could influence, nexuque pio longinqua revinxit. On the 2nd of October, 1180, he presided over amemorable Congress, on the banks of the Senja,near Sumeysat, at which the princes of Mesopo-tamia—Mosil, Jezira, Irbil, Keyfa, and Maridin,—th
. Saladin and the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. asAsia Minor; he was admittedly the chief of Saracenrulers from the Euphrates to the Nile, and was in-vited by other princes to act as arbiter in theirdisputes. This high position he used for a noblepurpose, whatever motive urged him. He broughtabout a general peace, a Truga Dei, among all thepeoples whom he could influence, nexuque pio longinqua revinxit. On the 2nd of October, 1180, he presided over amemorable Congress, on the banks of the Senja,near Sumeysat, at which the princes of Mesopo-tamia—Mosil, Jezira, Irbil, Keyfa, and Maridin,—the Sultan of Konia, and the King of Armenia settheir seals to a solemn pact, whereby they bound 11801 The Pax Saracenica 16 themselves on oath to keep peace one with anotherfor the space of two years. For this time war wasto be unknown within their borders, and a holy truce,a Magna Pax Saracenica, was to reign throughoutthe land. Hae tibi erunt artes, pacisque imponere morem. ... It was a great conception : but how it was observedwill be
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