_
[232] The Mondego is the largest river having its rise within the
kingdom of
Portugal
and entering no other state.
Camoes - Lusiades
[228] _Colchis.
_--A country of Asia Minor bordering on the Black
Sea.
--_Ed.
_
[229]
_Tu quoque littoribus nostris, AEneia nutrix, AEternam moriens famam,
Caieta, dedisti.
_ VIRG.
AEn.
vii.
[230] _i.
e.
_ Tangiers, opposite to Gibraltar.
--_Ed.
_
[231] This should be _Emir el Moumeneen_, _i.
e.
_, Commander of the
Faithful.
--_Ed.
_
[232] The Mondego is the largest river having its rise within the
kingdom of
Portugal
and entering no other state.
--_Ed.
_
[233] _Miramolin.
_--Not the name of a person, but a title, _quasi
Sultan_; _the Emperor of the Faithful_.
[234] In this poetical exclamation, expressive of the sorrow of Portugal
on the death of Alonzo, Camoens has happily imitated some passages of
Virgil.
----_Ipsae te, Tityre, pinus,
Ipsi te fontes, ipsa haec arbusta vocabant.
_
ECL.
i.
----_Eurydicen vox ipsa et frigida lingua,
Ah miseram Eurydicen, anima fugiente, vocabat:
Eurydicen toto referebant flumine ripae.
_
GEORG.
iv.
----_littus, Hyla, Hyla, omne sonaret.
_
ECL.
vi.
[235] The Guadalquiver, the largest river in Spain.
--_Ed.
