[Footnote 176: 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)]