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<h2 id="literature">Literature</h2> <p>In <a href="/facts/Alexandre_Herculano/W9N7Dy5y">Alexandre Herculano</a>'s <i>Eurico, o Presbítero</i>, Oppas is portrayed as a traitor to his own country, whose troops treacherously went to the conqueror's side, and a close collaborator of the conquerors <a href="/facts/Musa_ibn_Nusair/b07ayLEz">Musa</a> and <a href="/facts/Tariq_ibn_Ziyad/KGgvA19m">Tarik</a>. He ends up killed in a fight against the main character, Eurico. </p> <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> <h2 id="sources">Sources</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Roger_Collins/XPzu7zIW">Collins, Roger</a> (1989). <i>The Arab Conquest of Spain, 710–797</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-631-15923-1.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Roger_Collins/XPzu7zIW">Collins, Roger</a> (2004). <i>Visigothic Spain, 409–711</i>. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-631-18185-7.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Edward_Arthur_Thompson/5UcvWSUs">Thompson, E. A.</a> (1969). <a href="https://archive.org/details/gothsinspain00thom"><i>The Goths in Spain</i></a>. Oxford: Clarendon Press. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-19-814271-4.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Usually rendered Dom Opas in Portuguese sources. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Thompson, The Goths in Spain, 250. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Collins, Visigothic Spain, 133. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Collins, Visigothic Spain, 134. <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Collins, Arab Conquest, 29–30. <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Collins, Visigothic Spain, 134. <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Collins, Visigothic Spain, 139. Collins, Arab Conquest, 30. <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Collins, Visigothic Spain, 134. <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Collins, Visigothic Spain, 138. Collins, Arab Conquest, 33. <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Collins, Visigothic Spain, 137. <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Collins, Visigothic Spain, 137. <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>Collins, Arab Conquest, 147. <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>Collins (Arab Conquest, 148–149) notes that he was the third bishop to sign the canons of the Seventeenth Council of Toledo in 693. <a href="/wiki/Seventeenth_Council_of_Toledo" target="_blank">/wiki/Seventeenth_Council_of_Toledo</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>Collins, Arab Conquest, 145. According to later legend he was a commander of troops. Pelagius either had him executed or, out of respect for his priestly character, merely imprisoned. <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>