Jornada V.
Y aquí da este trato fin,
Que no lo tiene el de Argel,
is the jest with which he ends his other play on the same subject, printed thirty years after the representation of this one.
[117] Cervantes makes Scipio say of the siege, on his arrival,—
Diez y seis años son y mas pasados.
The true length of the contest with Numantia was, however, fourteen years, and the length of the last siege fourteen months.
[118] It is well to read, with the “Numancia” of Cervantes, the account of Florus, (Epit. II. 18), and especially that in Mariana, (Lib. III. c. 6-10), the latter being the proud Spanish version of it.