artment of Lot
(France), which visitors are assured was Roland's _Durandal_. But the
romances says that Roland, dying, threw his sword into a poisoned
stream.

_Death of Roland._ There is a tradition that Roland escaped the general
slaughter in the defile of Roncesvall[^e]s, and died of starvation while
trying to make his way across the mountains.--John de la Bruiere
Champier, _De Cibaria_, xvi. 5.

_Died like Roland_, died of thirst.

Nonnulli qui de Gallicis rebus historias conscripserunt, non
dubitarunt posteris significare Rolandum Caroli illius magni
sororis filium, verum certe bellica gloria omnique fortitudine
nobillissimum, post ingentem Hispanorum caedem prope Pyrenaei saltus
juga, ubi insidiae ab hoste collocatae fuerint, siti miserrime
extinctum. Inde nostri intolerabili siti et immiti volentes
significare se torqueri, facete aiunt "Rolandi morte se
perire."--John de la Bruiere Champier, _De Cibaria_, xvi. 5.

_Roland_ (_The Roman_). Sicinius Dent[=a]tus is so called by Niebuhr. He
is not unfrequently called "The Roman Achill[^e]s" (put to death B.C.
450).

=Roland Blake.= Hero of a war-novel of the same name.--Silas Weir
Mitchell, M.D. (1886).

=Roland and Oliver=, the two most famous of the twelve paladins of
Charlemagne. To give a "Roland for an Oliver" is to give tit for tat, to
give another as good a drubbing as you receive.

Froissart, a countryman of ours [_the French_] records,
England all Olivers and Rowlands bred
During the time Edward the Third did reign.

Shakespeare, 1 _Henry VI._ act i. sc. 2 (1589).

=Roland de Vaux= (_Sir_), baron of Triermain, who wakes Gyneth from her
long sleep of 500 years, and marries her.--Sir W. Scott, _Bridal of
Triermain_ (1813).

=Rolando= (_Signor_), a common railer against women, but brave, of a
"happy wit and independent spirit." Rolando swore to marry no woman, but
fell in love with Zam'ora, and married her, declaring "that she was no
woman, but an angel."--J. Tobin, _The Honeymoon_ (1804).

The resemblance between Rolando and Benedick will instantly occur to the
mind.

=Rolandseck Tower=, opposite the Drachenfels. Roland was engaged to Aude,
daughter of Sir Gerard and Lady Guibourg; but the lady, being told that
Roland had been slain by Angoulaffre, the Saracen, retired to a convent.
The paladin returned home full of glory, having slain the Saracen, and
when he heard that his lady