Sixteen of theſe files compoſed what was called a ſyntagmatarchy or a ſquare body of 256 men.

[…] it is really an uncommon piece of exaggerative imagination which we find in the description of this old bean's elaborate costume, with its pads, straps, strings […]

relaxation of the soft palate

Seid had fallen in the War of Tabuc, the first of Mahomet's fightings with the Greeks.