The joyful Anna Comnena scatters some flowers over the grave of an enemy (Alexiad, l. v. p. 162 - 166); and his best praise is the esteem and envy of William the Conqueror, the sovereign of his family
Graecia (says Malaterra) hostibus recedentibus libera laeta quievit: Apulia tota sive Calabria turbatur.