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The Lusiad

Note 449 — BOOK VII.

William Julius Mickle translation

So fall the bravest of the Christian name, While dogs unclean.—

Imitated from a fine passage in Lucan, beginning—

Quis furor, O Cives! quæ tanta licentia ferri, Gentibus invisis Latium præbere cruorem?

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