E canta como lá se embarcaria Em Belém o remédio deste dano, Sem saber o que em si ao mar traria, O grão Pacheco, Aquiles Lusitano. O peso sentirão, quando entraria, O curvo lenho e o férvido Oceano, Quando mais n' água os troncos que gemerem Contra sua natureza se meterem.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "E canta como lá se embarcaria Em Belém o remédio deste dano, Sem saber o que em si ao mar traria, O grão Pacheco, Aquiles Lusitano. O peso sentirão, quando entraria, O curvo lenho e o férvido Oceano, Quando mais n' água os troncos que gemerem Contra sua natureza se meterem." in the context of "Luís de Camões, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto X, 12.
• Translations:
 • And she sung, how there they should at length embark
In Belem, the remedy against this malice,
Without knowing who the sea would thus set to work
The great Pacheco, Lusitanian Achilles:
Sensible of more weight, when entering the bark
The crooked timbers, and the fervid billows,
Those deeper in water shall sink; and higher bound
Shall ocean waves, when they the deep ship surround.
  • Translated by Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, The Lusiad of Luis de Camoens, Closely Translated (1854), p. 245
 • She sang how in his ship a man would go
From Belem to avenge the cruel shame.
The weight it bears the ocean shall not know,
That great Pacheco who shall justly claim
Of Portuguese Achilles' glorious name;
When he embarks, the surging waves his weight
Shall feel, and all the vessel's beams and frame
Shall groan oppressed beneath the burthen great,
And in the water sink below its usual state.
  • Translated by Robert Ffrench Duff, The Lusiad of Camoens translated into English Spencerian verse (1880), p. 365" to mean that wisdom is timeless.