> As for me I have long identified with Rocinante.

Gracious, what a literate group. For those that care:

> The name is a combination of rocín (nag) or (hack) and ante (before). It is explained in the novel's first chapter that don Quixote, after a great deal of thought regarding what to call his horse — 

''al fin le vino a llamar Rocinante, nombre, a su parecer, alto, sonoro y significativo de lo que había sido cuando fue su rocín, antes de lo que ahora era, que era antes y primero de todos los rocines del mundo”  

(finally decided to call it Rocinante, that is, Hackafore, a name which, in his opinion, was lofty and sonorous and expressed what the creature had been when it was a humble hack, before it became what it was now — the first and foremost of all the hacks in the world).

Don Pedro de Abeja

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