Note 299 — BOOK IV.
William Julius Mickle translation
And many a gasping warrior sigh'd his last.—This, which is almost literal from—
Muitos lançaraõ o ultimo suspiro,—
and the preceding circumstance of Don John's brandishing his lance four times—
E sopesando a lança quatro vezes,
are poetical, and in the spirit of Homer. Besides Maldonat, Castera has, in this battle, introduced several other names which have no place in Camoëns. Carrillo, Robledo, John of Lorca, Salazar of Seville were killed, he tells us: And, "Velasques and Sanches, natives of Toledo, Galbes, surnamed the 'Soldier without Fear,' Montanches, Oropesa, and Mondonedo, all six of proved valour, fell by the hand of young Antony, who brought to the fight either more address, or better fortune than these." Not a word of this is in the Portuguese.