.--Smollett, _Roderick
Random_ (1748).

=Rod'erigo= or =Roderi'go= (3 _syl._), a Venetian gentleman, in love with
Desdemona. When Desdemona eloped with Othello, Roderigo hated the "noble
Moor," and Ia'go took advantage of this temper for his own base
ends.--Shakespeare, _Othello_ (1611).

Roderigo's suspicious credulity and impatient submission to the
cheats which he sees practised on him, and which, by persuasion, he
suffers to be repeated, exhibit a strong picture of a weak mind
betrayed by unlawful desires to a false friend.--Dr. Johnson.

=Rodilardus=, a huge cat, which attacked Panurge, and which he mistook for
"a young, soft-chinned devil." The word means "gnaw-lard" (Latin,
_rod[)e]re lardum_).--Rabelais, _Pantagruel_, iv. 67 (1545).

[Asterism] The[TN-132] marquis de Carabas." (See PUSS IN BOOTS.)

=Rodrigo=, king of Spain, conquered by the Moors. He saved his life by
flight, and wandered to Guadalet[^e], where he begged food of a shepherd,
and gave him in recompense his royal chain and ring. A hermit bade him,
in penance, retire to a certain tomb full of snakes and toads, where,
after three days, the hermit found him unhurt; so, going to his cell, he
passed the night in prayer. Next morning, Rodrigo cried aloud to the
hermit, "They eat me now; I feel the adder's bite." So his sin was
atoned for, and he died.

[Asterism] This Rodrigo is Roderick, the last of the Goths.

_Rodrigo_, rival of Pe'dro, "the pilgrim," and captain of a band of
outlaws.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Pilgrim_ (1621).

=Rodri'go de Mondragon= (_Don_), a bully and tyrant, the self-constituted
arbiter of all disputes in a tennis-court of Valladolid.

Don Rodrigo de Mondragon was about 30 years of age, of an ordinary
make, but lean and muscular; he had two little twinkling eyes that
rolled in his head, and threatened everybody he looked at; a very
flat nose, placed between red whiskers that curled up to his very
temples; and a manner of speaking so rough and passionate that his
words struck terror into everybody.--Lesage, _Gil Bias_, ii. 5
(1715).

=Rodhaver=, the sweetheart of Zal, a Persian. Zal being about to scale
her bower, she let down her long tresses to assist him, but Zal managed
to fix his crook into a projecting beam, and thus made his way to the
lady of his devotion.--Champion, _Ferdosi_.

=Rodman= (_Keeper, The_), an ex-colonel of the Federal army, who