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The Lusiad

Note 644 — BOOK X.

William Julius Mickle translation

There Gerum's isle the hoary ruin wears Where Time has trod.—

Presuming on the ruins which are found on this island, the natives pretend that the Armuzia of Pliny and Strabo was here situated. But this is a mistake, for that city stood on the continent. The Moors, however, have built a city in this isle, which they call by the ancient name.

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