"Cesse tudo o que a Musa antiga canta, Que outro valor mais alto se alevanta."
— Luís de Camões

January 1, 1970

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Stanza 3, lines 7–8 (tr. Richard Fanshawe). Compare: — Cedite Romani scriptores, cedite Grai! Nescioquid maius nascitur Iliade. — Make way, you Roman writers, make way, Greeks! Something greater than the Iliad is born. — Sextus Propertius, Elegies, II, xxxiv, 65–66