In a galley fight at Tyre in 1258, according to a Latin narrative, the Genoese shout “Ad arma, ad arma! ad ipsos, ad ipsos!” The cry of the Venetians before engaging the Greeks is represented by Martino da Canale, in his old French, as “or a yaus! or a yaus!” that of the Genoese on another occasion as Aur!  Aur! and this last is the shout of the Catalans also in Ramon de Muntaner. (Villemain, Litt. du Moyen Age, i. 99; Archiv.  Stor.  Ital. viii. 364, 506; Pertz, Script. xviii. 239; Muntaner, 269, 287.) Recently in a Sicilian newspaper, narrating an act of gallant and successful reprisal (only too rare) by country folk on a body of the brigands who are such a scourge to parts of the island, I read that the honest men in charging the villains raised a shout of “Ad iddi!  Ad iddi!”

[9] A phrase curiously identical, with a similar sequence, is attributed
    to an Austrian General at the battle of Skalitz in 1866. (Stoffel’s
    Letters.)

[10] E no me posso aregordar
        Dalcuno romanzo vertade
      Donde oyse uncha cointar
        Alcun triumfo si sobre!

[11] Stella in Muratori, xvii. 984.

[12] Dandulo, Ibid. xii. 404-405.

[13] Or entram con gran vigor,
        En De sperando aver triumpho,
        Queli zerchando inter lo Gorfo
      Chi menazeram zercha lor!

    And in the next verse note the pure Scotch use of the word bra:—­

      Siche da Otranto se partim
        Quella bra compagnia,
        Per assar in Ihavonia,
      D’Avosto a vinte nove di.

[14] The island of Curzola now counts about 4000 inhabitants; the town
    half the number.  It was probably reckoned a dependency of Venice at
    this time.  The King of Hungary had renounced his claims on the
    Dalmatian coasts by treaty in 1244. (Romanin, ii. 235.) The gallant
    defence of the place against the Algerines in 1571 won for Curzola
    from the Venetian Senate the honourable title in all documents of
    fedelissima. (Paton’s Adriatic, I. 47.)

[15] Ma se si gran colmo avea
      Perche andava mendigando

      Per terra de Lombardia
        Peccunia, gente a sodi? 
        Pone mente tu che l’odi
      Se noi tegnamo questa via?

      No, ma piu! ajamo omi nostrar
        Destri, valenti, e avisti,
        Che mai par de lor n’ o visti
      In tuti officj de mar.

[16] In July 1294, a Council of Thirty decreed that galleys should be
    equipped by the richest families in proportion to their wealth.  Among
    the families held to equip one galley each, or one galley among two or
    more, in this list, is the CA’ POLO.  But this was before the return of
    the travellers from the East, and just after the battle of Ayas.