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[509] _On his young pupil's flight. _--"Some, indeed most, writers say,
that the queen advancing with her army towards Guimaraez, the king,
without waiting till his governor joined him, engaged them and was
routed: but that afterwards the remains of his army, being joined by the
troops under the command of Egaz Munitz, engaged the army of the queen a
second time, and gained a complete victory. "--UNIV. HIST.

[510] _Egaz behold, a chief self-doom'd to death. _--See the same story
in bk. iii. p. 71. Though history affords no authentic document of this
transaction, tradition, the poet's authority, is not silent. And the
monument of Egaz in the monastery of Paco de Souza gives it countenance.
Egaz and his family are there represented, in bas relief, in the
attitude and garb, says Castera, as described by Camoens.

[511] _Ah Rome! no more thy gen'rous consul boast. _--Sc.
Posthumus, who,
overpowered by the Samnites, submitted to the indignity of passing under
the yoke.

[512] _The Moorish king. _--The Alcaydes, or tributary governors under
the Miramolin{*} or Emperor of Morocco, are often by the Spanish and
Portuguese writers styled kings. He who was surprised and taken prisoner
by Don Fuaz Roupinho was named _Gama_. Fuaz, after having gained the
first naval victory of the Portuguese, also experienced their first
defeat. With one and twenty sail he attacked fifty-four large galleys of
the Moors. "The sea," says Brandan, "which had lately furnished him with
trophies, now supplied him with a tomb. "

{*} This should be (and is evidently only a corruption of),
_Emir-el-Mumenin_, _i. e. _ in Arabic, Commander of the believers. --_Ed. _

[513] _A foreign navy brings the pious aid. _--A navy of crusaders,
mostly English.

[514] _And from the leaves. _--This legend is mentioned by some ancient
Portuguese chronicles. Homer would have availed himself, as Camoens has
done, of a tradition so enthusiastic, and characteristic of the age.