[Footnote 94: Abulpharagius (Dynast. p. 167, 168) relates
one of these singular transactions on the bridge of the
River Lamus in Cilicia, the limit of the two empires, and
one day's journey westward of Tarsus, (D'Anville, Geographie
Ancienne, tom. ii. p. 91.) Four thousand four hundred and
sixty Moslems, eight hundred women and children, one hundred
confederates, were exchanged for an equal number of Greeks.
They passed each other in the middle of the bridge, and when
they reached their respective friends, they shouted Allah
Acbar, and Kyrie Eleison. Many of the prisoners of Amorium
were probably among them, but in the same year, (A. H. 231,)
the most illustrious of them, the forty two martyrs, were
beheaded by the caliph's order.]