Note 73 — BOOK I.
William Julius Mickle translation
The sun.—Imitated, perhaps, from Rutilius, speaking of the Roman Empire—
Volvitur ipse tibi, qui conspicit omnia, Phœbus, Atque tuis ortos in tua condit equos;
or, more probably, from these lines of Buchanan, addressed to John III. King of Portugal, the grandfather of Sebastian—
Inque tuis Phœbus regnis oriensque cadensque Vix longum fesso conderet axe diem. Et quæcunque vago se circumvolvit Olympo Affulget ratibus flamma ministra tuis.