[Footnote 86: Balista, Balestra, Arbalestre. See Muratori,
Antiq. tom. ii. p. 517 - 524. Ducange, Gloss. Latin. tom.
i. p. 531, 532. In the time of Anna Comnena, this weapon,
which she describes under the name of izangra, was unknown
in the East, (l. x. p. 291.) By a humane inconsistency, the
pope strove to prohibit it in Christian wars.]