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The Lusiad

Note 481 — BOOK VII.

William Julius Mickle translation

Behind her founder Nysa's walls were rear'd—— ——at distance far The Ganges lav'd the wide-extended war.—

This is in the perspective manner of the beautiful descriptions of the figures on the shield of Achilles.—Il. xviii.

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