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"Ipse Rodericus, Meo cidi saepe vocatus, De quo cantatur quod ab hostibus haud superatur, Qui domuit Mauros, comites domuit quoque nostros."

January 1, 1970

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Rodrigo himself, often called Mio Cid, Of whom it is sung that he was not defeated by enemies, Who dominated Moors, also dominated our counts. — Poema de Almería (c. 1150), lines 220–222, as quoted and translated in Matthew Bailey's The Poetics of Speech in the Medieval Spanish Epic (University of Toronto Press, 2010), p. 45

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Rodrigo himself, often called Mio Cid, Of whom it is sung that he was not defeated by enemies, Who dominated Moors, also dominated our counts. — Poema de Almería (c. 1150), lines 220–222, as quoted and translated in Matthew Bailey's The Poetics of Speech in the Medieval Spanish Epic (University of Toronto Press, 2010), p. 45