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Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads), vol. 1 of 2

Chapter 18: Canto III. Endnotes.
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An epic poem recounts a heroic maritime expedition to distant shores, framing the voyage within classical myth and allegory. It alternates stirring narrative of navigation, encounters, and naval combat with formal speeches and digressions that praise the homeland's virtues, explore destiny and imperial ambition, and reflect on fate, fame, and human courage. Gods and mythic figures intervene and debate, while lyric passages celebrate landscape, love, and patriotic pride. The structure cycles through cantos that blend descriptive vividness, rhetorical argument, and moral reflection to commemorate a national enterprise of exploration.

Canto III. Endnotes.

  1. Tanais, the Don.

  2. Whence Adam (“red man”).

  3. Ruthenians = Eastern Galicians.

  4. Amisius or Amisia (Ems).

  5. Borussians = Prussians.

  6. Harz and Erzgebirge.

  7. Hod. Vardari or Bradi.

  8. Padua.

  9. Seine and Garonne.

  10. Viriatus = vir, vires, virtus (paronomasia).

  11. De Bouillon, crowned first king of Jerusalem, A.D. 1099.

  12. The favourite figure correctio.

  13. Valdevez, or Campo da Matança, A.D. 1128 (Canto IV. 16).

  14. i.e., of festal garb (Canto VIII. 14).

  15. Battle of Ourique, A.D. 1139.

  16. Isma’il = Ishmael.

  17. i.e., disclose Thyself, show a sign.

  18. The conqueror’s custom.

  19. St. Irene, Sanctarem, Santarem.

  20. Second Crusade, A.D. 1147.

  21. Giraldo Sem-Pavor, who took Evora.

  22. Burnt by the Moors.

  23. Syrians.

  24. The Ararat of fiction.

  25. Cape St. Vincent.

  26. The Guadalquivir.

  27. African Ceuta, opposite Gibraltar.

  28. The Emperor of Marocco.

  29. Coimbra.

  30. The Guadiana river.

  31. The Battle of the “Horns of Hattin.”

  32. Sic in orig.

  33. By D. Roderick the Goth.

  34. Begins vehemently—ex abrupto.

  35. The Lixus river, now Al-kús of Marocco.

  36. Battle of Tarifa or Rio Salado, A.D. 1340.

  37. Fourth of Portugal and eleventh of Castile.

  38. i.e., Portuguese Afonso.

  39. “Peace with honour.”

  40. Writing his name upon the tree-trunks and leaves.

  41. In orig., Ministros, i.e. of wrath (?)

  42. The famous Fonte-dos-Amores, near Coimbra.

  43. E bem parece,—ambiguous.