[234] In this poetical exclamation, expressive of the sorrow of Portugal
on the death of Alonzo, Camoens has happily imitated some
passages
of
Virgil.
Camoes - Lusiades
_ 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._
[236] The Portuguese, in their wars with the Moors, were several times
assisted by the English and German crusaders. In the present instance
the fleet was mostly English, the troops of which nation were, according
to agreement, rewarded with the plunder, which was exceeding rich, of
the city of Silves. _Nuniz de Leon as cronicas dos Reis de Port_, A.D.
