[416] Prophetically he had echoed (_Lus._ X. 23) the complaint of the historians of India: _Morrer nos hospitaes em pobres leitos Os que ao Rei e á lei servem de muro_. [417] _Todos hasta oy, y principalmente en Castilla, tuvieron siempre a mi Maestre por mayor en estes Poemas que en el Heroyco_ (_Varias Rimas_, Prólogo, 2 vols., 1685, 1689). Cf. the praise of his _versos pequenos_ in Severim de Faria, _Vida_, p. 121. [418] See the important work by Dr. Rodrigues: _As Fontes dos Lusiadas_ (1904-1913). Cf. Camões’ _Vão os annos decendo_ (x. 9) and _Leal Conselheiro_ (cap. 1, p. 18), where the words are used in the same connexion. With Virgil he was obviously acquainted at first hand, with Homer perhaps in the translation of the Florentine scholar Lorenzo Valla (1405-57). In _As Fontes dos Lusiadas_ is also discussed the origin of the word Lusiads, as by D. Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcellos in _O Instituto_, vol. lii (1905), pp. 241-50: _Lucius Andreas Resendius Inventor da palavra Lusiadas_. It was one of the Latin words acclimatized by Camões. It occurs in a Latin poem by André de Resende, _Vicentius Levita et Martyr_ (1545), and in his _Encomium Erasmi_ written, but not published, in 1531; in a Latin poem by Jorge Coelho, perhaps written in 1526 but touched up before its publication in 1536; and is twice used by Manuel da Costa (in and about 1537). [419] The word is undoubtedly _dotto_ in the facsimile of the text given in Antonio de Portugal de Faria, _Torquato Tasso a Luiz de Camões_ (Leorne, 1898) although there, as always, it has been transcribed as _colto_. Diogo Bernardez calls Tasso _culto_, perhaps mistaking the reference in Garci Lasso, whose _culto Taso_ is not Torquato but Bernardo. Lope de Vega called Camões _divino_ and reserved _docto_ for Corte Real. [420] His works are _ja muitas vezes impressas_ in 1594. In 1631 Alvaro Ferreira de Vera speaks of twelve Portuguese editions (_Breves Lovvores_, f. 87). [421] _Apologia em qve defende_, &c. (1641). [422] The instance he gives is the long story of _Magriço e os Doze de Inglaterra_ (vi), which he admits is in itself very fine. [423] One of the best instances of his pedantry is his comment on the lines _E tu, nobre Lisboa, que no mundo Facilmente das outras es princesa_. The ordinary reader is content to understand ‘cities’ after _outras_. But no, says Macedo, you can only understand Lisbons. Princess of all the other Lisbons! [424] _Laurel de Apolo: Postrando Eneidas y venciendo Iliadas._ [425] Even here some of the lines are a literal translation of Virgil, but if we compare Para o ceo crystallino alevantando Com lagrimas os olhos piadosos, Os olhos, porque as mãos, &c., with the passage Ad coelum tendens, &c., it is not at all clear that the picture of the older poet is more beautiful than that of _il lusiade Maro_.