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Note note to p. 100, l. 26 — POESÍAS DE LOS SIGLOS XVI-XVII

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l. 26. León here deals with an unhistorical legend of Arabic origin, according to which the Moors were introduced into Spain in 711, through the treachery of an injured father, Count Julian, whose daughter, sometimes called Cava, King Roderick was said to have seduced. The Spanish poet imitates the situation in Horace’s ode, Pastor quum traheret per freta navibus.

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