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Then Ambassador Abdalla Salomon stood up and said: "Since you
don't want to give us peace, wait for the fifteenth day of the
moon. For on that day such a multitude of Moorish soldiers will
come here that the earth will not be able to hold them up."
After they had departed Tirant ordered Diafebus to go to
Constantinople that night with many soldiers, on foot and on
horseback, and all the prisoners.
When Diafebus reached the city, the emperor and all the others
acknowledged Tirant as the victor, and all the knights were
praised, and the victory was celebrated with great joy. Diafebus
delivered four thousand three hundred prisoners to the emperor on
Tirant's behalf so that the Greeks would see his virtue and great
generosity. The emperor had them taken and carefully guarded.
The following day the emperor took fifteen ducats for each
prisoner from his treasury, and delivered them to Diafebus to
give to Tirant.
When the princess knew that Diafebus was free from his duties she
sent word to him to come to her chambers.


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