a  que  Marie  (from  Man.  Correa's  edit,  of  1613)  for
que  a  Marte.  To  their  truly  scholiastic  reasoning  that
"  Mars  helps  and  is  not  helped  "  I  can  only  cry  Prosa  !
The  whole  Stanza  has  been  blamed  for  "  immodest
exaggeration,  vicious  hypallage,  and  excessive  hyperbole."
It  is  one  of  the  Poet's  ampullce. ;  but  the  figure,  although
daring,  is  allowable  ;  and  the  more  so  as  the  Poet,  like
Homer  (II.  xv.  i)  makes  his  Mars  of  the  Earth  earthy,
a  manner  of  Valentavi  (Bobadil).  In  the  last  Xvcv^  prep
(price)  represents  by  metonymy  the  thing  "appreciated  :


Notes  to  Canto  I.  561


so  peito  (pectus,  breast)  for  courage,  here  and  elsewhere  :
— homein  de peito,  a  "  man  of  spunk."

VI. — This  invocation  to  D.  Sebastiam,  which  runs  on
to  S.  xiii.,  and  which  balances  the  twelve  final  octaves
(x.  145-156),  has  been  much  praised  and  dispraised.  In
line  7  the  subjunctive  mande,  standing  for  the  indicative
manda,  is,  says  Mac,  a  grammatical  error.  Camoens,
however,  often  changes  his  moods  for  reasons  best
known  to  himself.  Others  would  place  the  four  words
in  a  parenthesis  and  thus  convert  them  into  an  ejacu-
lation, a  prayer  ("  May  it,  the  marvel,  command  the
whole  of  it,  the  world  ! ").
VII. — The  arms  of  Portugal  are  heraldically  described
in  iii.  53-4.  Lines  5-8  apparently  refer  to  the  epigram
placed  in  the  Saviour's  mouth  : —

Vulnera  nostra  tibi,  Rex,  sunt  insignia.     Vici
His  quondam  :  vinces  :  sacra  trophsea  feres.
VIII. — The  learned  G.  Buchanan  thus  addressed
D.  Joam  III.,  wdth  a  British  boast : —

Inque  tuis  Phoebus  regnis,  oriensque  cadensque,

Vix  longum  fesso  conderet  axe  diem  ;
Et  qugecumque  vago  se  circumvolvit  Olympo

Affulget  ratibus  flamma  ministra  tuis.
