_Cantò como rompidos los candados De la lobrega cueva, y despedidas De sus senos obscuros vozes tristes No bien articuladas, si a remiendos, Repetidas adentro por el ayre, Y una mas bronca se escucho que dize, Desdichado Rey Ro (y acaba digo, Quedando la R submersa entre piçarras) La Coro perderas, y el Man, y el Ce, No dixo el na, ni el do, ni el tro, no dixo; Almenos no se oyo, si bien oyose Por lascivo tirano, y por sobervio, Que ya permite el cielo que el de Meca Castigue por tu causa el Reyno Godo, Por solo que lo riges con mal modo._ Los Amantes de Teruel, p. 29. The _Chronica General del Rey Don Alfonso_ gives a singular account of the first inhabitant of this fatal spot:— “There was a king who had to name Rocas; he was of the east country from Edom, wherein was Paradise, and for the love of wisdom he forsook his kingdom, and went about the world seeking knowledge. And in a country between the east and the north he found seventy pillars; thirty were of brass, thirty of marble, and they lay upon the ground, and upon them was written all knowledge and the nature of things. These Rocas translated, and carried with him the book in which he had translated them, by which he did marvels. He came to Troy when the people under Laomedon were building the city, and seeing them he laughed. They asked him why, and he replied, that if they knew what was to happen, they would cease from their work. Then they took him and led him before Laomedon, and Laomedon asked him for why he had spoken these words, and Rocas answered, that he had spoken truth, for the people should be put to the sword, and the city be destroyed by fire. Wherefore the Trojans would have slain him, but Laomedon, judging that he spake from folly, put him in prison to see if he would repent. He, fearful of death, by his art sent a sleep upon the guards, and filed off his irons, and went his way. And he came to the seven hills by the Tyber, and there upon a stone he wrote the letters Roma, and Romulus found them, and gave them as a name to his city, because they bore a resemblance to his own.