ABSTRACT
The merchants were damp and wet from the eddying storms which were frequent as is usual at that season. They were hungry and thirsty, their feet were foul with mud and their wares were ruined by rain. . . . All who came or remained there were afflicted with weariness. For during all the time that the crowd came, remained and went away, torrents of rain soaked everything; so that all, muddy, damp, tired and jaded, felt wretched. For, the bridges broken down, the fords became, through traffic, hardly passable, the roads hardly usable, the city muddy beyond words, food and other necessaries scarce and dear, and all involved in wretched inconvenience.
