_--The Twelve Peers
of France, often mentioned in the old romances.
of France, often mentioned in the old romances.
Camoes - Lusiades
--_Ed.
_
[73] _The sun. _--Imitated, perhaps, from Rutilius, speaking of the Roman
Empire--
_Volvitur ipse tibi, qui conspicit omnia, Phoebus,
Atque tuis ortos in tua condit equos;_
or, more probably, from these lines of Buchanan, addressed to John III.
King of Portugal, the grandfather of Sebastian--
_Inque tuis Phoebus regnis oriensque cadensque
Vix longum fesso conderet axe diem.
Et quaecunque vago se circumvolvit Olympo
Affulget ratibus flamma ministra tuis. _
[74] _i. e. _ poetic. Aonia was the ancient name of Boeotia, in which
country was a fountain sacred to the Muses, whence Juvenal sings of a
poet--
"Enamoured of the woods, and fitted for drinking
At the fountains of the Aonides. "
JUV. Sat. vii. 58. --_Ed. _
[75] _To match the Twelve so long by bards renown'd.
_--The Twelve Peers
of France, often mentioned in the old romances. For the episode of
Magricio and his eleven companions, see the sixth Lusiad.
[76] Afonso in Portuguese. In the first edition Mickle had Alfonso,
which he altered to Alonzo in the second edition.
[77] _Thy grandsires. _--John III. King of Portugal, celebrated for a
long and peaceful reign; and the Emperor Charles V. , who was engaged in
almost continual wars.
[78] Some critics have condemned Virgil for stopping his narrative to
introduce even a short observation of his own. Milton's beautiful
complaint of his blindness has been blamed for the same reason, as being
no part of the subject of his poem. The address of Camoens to Don
Sebastian at the conclusion of the tenth Lusiad has not escaped the same
censure; though in some measure undeservedly, as the poet has had the
art to interweave therein some part of the general argument of his poem.
[79] This brave Lusitanian, who was first a shepherd and a famous
hunter, and afterwards a captain of banditti, exasperated at the tyranny
of the Romans, encouraged his countrymen to revolt and shake off the
yoke. Being appointed general, he defeated Vetilius the praetor, who
commanded in Lusitania, or farther Spain. After this he defeated, in
three pitched battles, the praetors, C. Plautius Hypsaeus and Claudius
Unimanus, though they led against him very numerous armies. For six
years he continued victorious, putting the Romans to flight wherever he
met them, and laying waste the countries of their allies.
[73] _The sun. _--Imitated, perhaps, from Rutilius, speaking of the Roman
Empire--
_Volvitur ipse tibi, qui conspicit omnia, Phoebus,
Atque tuis ortos in tua condit equos;_
or, more probably, from these lines of Buchanan, addressed to John III.
King of Portugal, the grandfather of Sebastian--
_Inque tuis Phoebus regnis oriensque cadensque
Vix longum fesso conderet axe diem.
Et quaecunque vago se circumvolvit Olympo
Affulget ratibus flamma ministra tuis. _
[74] _i. e. _ poetic. Aonia was the ancient name of Boeotia, in which
country was a fountain sacred to the Muses, whence Juvenal sings of a
poet--
"Enamoured of the woods, and fitted for drinking
At the fountains of the Aonides. "
JUV. Sat. vii. 58. --_Ed. _
[75] _To match the Twelve so long by bards renown'd.
_--The Twelve Peers
of France, often mentioned in the old romances. For the episode of
Magricio and his eleven companions, see the sixth Lusiad.
[76] Afonso in Portuguese. In the first edition Mickle had Alfonso,
which he altered to Alonzo in the second edition.
[77] _Thy grandsires. _--John III. King of Portugal, celebrated for a
long and peaceful reign; and the Emperor Charles V. , who was engaged in
almost continual wars.
[78] Some critics have condemned Virgil for stopping his narrative to
introduce even a short observation of his own. Milton's beautiful
complaint of his blindness has been blamed for the same reason, as being
no part of the subject of his poem. The address of Camoens to Don
Sebastian at the conclusion of the tenth Lusiad has not escaped the same
censure; though in some measure undeservedly, as the poet has had the
art to interweave therein some part of the general argument of his poem.
[79] This brave Lusitanian, who was first a shepherd and a famous
hunter, and afterwards a captain of banditti, exasperated at the tyranny
of the Romans, encouraged his countrymen to revolt and shake off the
yoke. Being appointed general, he defeated Vetilius the praetor, who
commanded in Lusitania, or farther Spain. After this he defeated, in
three pitched battles, the praetors, C. Plautius Hypsaeus and Claudius
Unimanus, though they led against him very numerous armies. For six
years he continued victorious, putting the Romans to flight wherever he
met them, and laying waste the countries of their allies.
