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The Lusiad

Note 74 — BOOK I.

William Julius Mickle translation

i.e. poetic. Aonia was the ancient name of Bœotia, in which country was a fountain sacred to the Muses, whence Juvenal sings of a poet—

"Enamoured of the woods, and fitted for drinking At the fountains of the Aonides."

Juv. Sat. vii. 58.—Ed.

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