Id sane infortunii regibus pedem ex acie
referentibus saepe contingit. Ben Hazil of Granada in
Biblioth. Arabico-Hispana, tom. ii. p. 327. Some credulous Spaniards believe that king Roderic, or Rodrigo, escaped to a hermit's cell; and others, that he was cast alive into a tub full of serpents, from whence he exclaimed, with a lamentable voice, "They devour the part with which I have so grievously sinned." (Don Quixote, part ii. L. iii c. i)