[Ida-avapd] Ir own way to power, and had won it by a superiority both intellectual

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 a hundred, and the great castle was taken at last. Nor do we know
surely that it was ever taken again by force, even long afterwards in
the days of artillery. But Crescenzio's hour had come, and the Emperor
took him and the twelve chief nobles who were with him, and cut off
their heads, one by one, in quick justice and without torture, and the
heads were set up on spikes, and the headless bodies were hung out from
the high crenellations