Note 41 — Chapter LXXXIII
John Ingram Lockhart translation
Respecting the castigation of the inhabitants of Cholulla, Las Casas, (Brevissima Relacion de la destrucyon de las Indias) asserts, though merely from hearsay, that Cortes, while cutting down the Indians, repeated this verse:
Miro Nero de Tarpeya, A Roma como se ardia, Gritos dan Niños y' viejos, Y el de nada se dolia.
A translation of these lines will be found in a subsequent note. (p. 208.)