-love had taken the veil, he built Rolandseck
Castle, which overlooks the convent, that he might at least _see_ the
lady to whom he could never be united. After the death of Aude, Roland
"sought the battle-field again, and fell at Roncevall."--Campbell, _The
Brave Roland_.

=Roldan=, "El encantado," Roldan made invulnerable by enchantment. The
cleft "Roldan," in the summit of a high mountain in the kingdom of
Valencia, was so called because it was made by a single back-stroke of
Roldan's sword. The character is in two Spanish romances, authors
unknown.--_Bernardo del Carpio_ and _Roncesvalles_.

This book [_Rinaldo de Montalban_], and all others written on
French matters, shall be deposited in some dry place ... except one
called _Bernardo del Carpio_, and another called _Roncesvalles_,
which shall certainly accompany the rest on the
bonfire.--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, I. i. 6 (1605).

=Rolla=, kinsman of the Inca Atali'ba, and the idol of the army. "In war a
tiger chafed by the hunters' spears; in peace more gentle than the
unweaned lamb" (act i. 1). A firm friend and most generous foe. Rolla is
wounded in his attempt to rescue the infant child of Alonzo from the
Spaniards, and dies. His grand funeral procession terminates the
drama.--Sheridan, _Pizarro_ (altered from Kotzebue, 1799).

=Rolleston= (_General_), father of Helen, in _Foul Play_, by Charles
Reade.

=Rollo=, duke of Normandy, called "The Bloody Brother." He caused the
death of his brother, Otto, and slew several others, some out of mere
wantonness.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Bloody Brother_ (1639).

=Rollo=, boy who is the hero of Jacob Abbott's celebrated and delightful
"_Rollo Books_," embracing _Rollo Learning to Read_, _Rollo Learning to
Work_, _Rollo at School_, _Rollo's Vacation_, etc., etc. (1840-1857).

=Roman= (_The_), Jean Dumont, the French painter, _Le Romain_ (1700-1781).

Stephen Picart, the French engraver, _Le Romain_ (1631-1721).

Giulio Pippi, called _Giulio Romano_ (1492-1546).

Adrian von Roomen, mathematician, _Adri[=a]nus Rom[=a]nus_ (1561-1615).

=Roman Achill[^e]s=, Sicinius Dent[=a]tus (slain R.C.[TN-134] 450).

=Roman Brevity.= Caesar imitated laconic brevity when he announced to
Amintius his victory at Zela, in Asia Minor, over Pharna'c[^e]s, son of
Mithridat[^e]s; _Veni, vidi, vici._

_Poins._ I will imitate the honorable Roman in
brevity.--Shakespeare, 2 _Henry I