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asked a dozen voices . ` Read your notes . Whosoever will fight to-morrow under the banner of the Lord , shall have free plunder of the Jews ' quarter , outrage and murder only forbidden . As I have said it , God do so to me , and more also , if there be a Jew left in Alexandria by to-morrow at noon . Go . ' And the staff of orderlies filed out , thanking Heaven that they had a leader so prompt and valiant , and spent the next hour over the hall fire , eating millet cakes , drinking bad beer , likening Cyril to Barak , Gideon , Samson , Jephtha , Judas Maccabeus , and all the worthies of the Old Testament , and then started on their pacific errand . Philammon was about to follow them , when Cyril stopped him .