Such was the argument of the traitor Oppas, and every chief to whom it was addressed did not answer with the spirit of Pelagius:
Omnis Hispania dudum sub uno regimine Gothorum, omnis exercitus Hispaniae in uno congregatus Ismaelitarum non valuit sustinere impetum. Chron. A1phonsi Regis, apud Pagi, tom. iii. p. 177.