Note 499 — BOOK VIII.
William Julius Mickle translation
His cluster'd bough, the same which Bacchus bore.—Camoëns immediately before, and in the former book, calls the ensign of Lusus a bough; here he calls it the green thyrsus of Bacchus:—
O verde Tyrso foi de Bacco usado.
The thyrsus, however, was a javelin twisted with ivy-leaves, used in the sacrifices of Bacchus.