Six men-at-arms were missing, probably prisoners, for, as courageous as their masters, they had leapt down from the wall into the town.

Eleven other retainers or slaves were slain, or had deserted, or were prisoners, and no trouble was taken about them.

As for the three who were knocked over by the sling stones, there they lay until they recovered their senses, when they crawled into camp.

This incident cooled Felix's ardour for the fray, for he reflected that, if injured thus, he too, as a mere groom, would be left.

The devotion of the retainers to save and succour their masters was almost heroic.