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Quotation from The Alexiad by Anna Komnene
“For like a hammer-wrought statue, made perhaps of bronze or cold iron, he would sit the whole night through”
The Alexiad, Book XIV, trans. Elizabeth A. S. Dawes
Anna describes her father enduring long audiences with Frankish counts, one cause she gives for his gout.
Citation: "For like a hammer-wrought statue, made perhaps of bronze or cold iron, he would sit the whole night through" — Anna Komnene, The Alexiad, Book XIV, trans. Elizabeth A. S. Dawes. (id anna-komnene-alexiad-q6)
Portrait: Anna Komnene (cropped), Unknown, Public domain.
