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[252] Three times in the course of the last book of the *Gesta Dei* Guibert finds something positive in the absence of Western kings on the expedition to Jerusalem. Among the practical reasons for their absence: (1) Philip I and the Holy Roman Emperor were excommunicate at the time; (2) William Rufus was anticlerical and otherwise occupied; (3) the Italian rulers were absorbed with local problems.
[253] Lucan I.135.
[254] Ecclesiasticus 11.5.
[255] Horace, Ars Poetica 97.
[256] Robert the Monk, RHC.HO III, p. 794, provides a longer pa.s.sage on Gualo.
[257] In Terence's *Eunuch* (I.ii.105), the slave Parmeno says he can keep silent about the truth, but must immediately speak (or leak) what is a lie.
[258] RHC IV 149F.
[259] 1066-1118.
[260] 1104.
[261] One dactylic hexameter.
[262] Numbers XX.2-13; XXIII.38.
[263] Fulker.
[264] In RHC, p. 333, Fulker mentions 600,000.
[265] Luke 12.32.
[266] The *Gesta Francorum* gives his name: Gervais de Bazoches.
