Lomas, John, traveller in Spain · London : A. and C. Black · leaf 344
ador, the Champion, means nothing—or, at any rate, nothing more than all other similarand arrogant titles, from lawn-tennis upwards or down-wards ; but El Cid, or Sid, means a good deal. It is anArabic word signifying lord, and was conferred uponDon Rodrigo by the Moors of Zaragoza when he… … >> < H <O > —■ CO < JATIVA AND VALENCIA 261 Roderick made the murderer swear in Santa Agueda thathe had had no participation in the crime, he had to fleehard from tho royal vengeance. Still, there is a strangesignificance in the fact that it is only as the Moslem Sidthat the…
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