In a conference with a prince of the Greeks, Amrou
observed that their religion was different; upon which score it was
lawful for brothers to quarrel. Ockley's History of the Saracens, vol.
i. p. 328.]

[Footnote 165: Abulfeda, Annal. Moslem. p 78, vers. Reiske.]

[Footnote 166: The name of Andalusia is applied by the Arabs not only to
the modern province, but to the whole peninsula of Spain (Geograph. Nub.
p. 151, d'Herbelot, Bibliot. Orient. p. 114, 115). The etymology has
been most improbably deduced from Vandalusia, country of the Vandals.
(d'Anville Etats de l'Europe, p. 146, 147, &c.) But the Handalusia of
Casiri, which signifies, in Arabic, the region of the evening, of the
West, in a word, the Hesperia of the Greeks, is perfectly apposite.
(Bibliot. Arabico-Hispana, tom. ii. p. 327, &c.)]

[Footnote 167: The fall and resurrection of the Gothic monarchy are
related by Mariana (tom. l. p. 238-260, l. vi. c. 19-26, l. vii. c. 1,
2). That historian has infused into his noble work (Historic de Rebus
Hispaniae, libri xxx. Hagae Comitum 1733, in four volumes, folio, with
the continuation of Miniana), the style and spirit of a Roman classic;
and after the twelfth century, his knowledge and judgment may be safely
trusted. But the Jesuit is not exempt from the prejudices of his order;
he adopts and adorns, like his rival Buchanan, the most absurd of the
national legends; he is too careless of criticism and chronology, and
supplies, from a lively fancy, the chasms of historical evidence. These
chasms are large and frequent; Roderic archbishop of Toledo, the father
of the Spanish history, lived five hundred years after the conquest
of the Arabs; and the more early accounts are comprised in some meagre
lines of the blind chronicles of Isidore of Badajoz (Pacensis,) and
of Alphonso III. king of Leon, which I have seen only in the Annals of
Pagi.]

If we inquire into the cause of this treachery, the Spaniards will
repeat the popular story of his daughter Cava;[168] of a virgin who was
seduced, or ravished, by her sovereign; of a father who sacrificed his
religion and country to the thirst of revenge. The passions of princes
have often been licentious and destructive; but this well-known tale,
romantic in itself, is indifferently supported by external evidence; and
the history of Spain will suggest some motives of interest and policy
more congenial to the breast of a veteran statesman.[169] After the
decease or deposition o