By the command of the Empress, MEGAS, her handsomest court poet, put it into Greek and Latin verses.
"The Scarlet Banner"
Felix Dahn
They are astonishingly bad, worse than even our MEGAS usually writes; but they are easy to learn, so by day and night soldiers and sailors sing them in the streets and the wine-shops, as children sing in the dark to keep their courage up; for our heroes really do not yet feel very anxious to make the holy voyage to Carthage.
"The Scarlet Banner"
Felix Dahn
The Empress says-and of course she must know-that the Holy Ghost inspired MEGAS.
"The Scarlet Banner"
Felix Dahn