Sanguinary

Being widowed in one’s teens is unusual; being three times widowed before one’s 30th birthday, all of them on a foreign shore and mostly in sanguinary circumstances, must be almost unheard of.

In his later writings he would attempt to present himself as an opponent of Diocletian's "sanguinary edicts" against the "worshippers of God", Oratio ad Sanctorum Coetum 25; Odahl, 73. but nothing indicates that he opposed it effectively at the time.

The sanguinary feuds between these two factions depleted, in course of time, the manhood of the Lebanon and ended in the decisive battle of Ain Dara in 1711, which resulted in the utter defeat of the Yemenite party.