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Sobriʹno (in Orlando Furioso)

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One of the most valiant of the Saracen army. He is called the Sage. He was aged, and counselled Agʹramant to give up the war and return home, or, if he rejected that advice, to entrust the fight to single combat, on condition that the nation of the champion overthrown should pay tribute to the other. Rogeʹro was chosen for the pagan champion, and Rinaldo for the Christian, but Agramant broke the league. Sobriʹno soon after this received the rite of baptism.

Don Quixote asks—

“Who more prudent than Sobrino?”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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