Ercilla

[ er-thee-lyah, -see-yah ]

noun

1. A·lon·so de [ah-, lawn, -saw , th, e], 1533–94, Spanish epic poet; soldier in the conquest of Chile.

Example Sentences

Ercilla represents him as very ardent in battle, sometimes fighting himself, sometimes urging on his soldiers, always in movement.

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The poet Ercilla has made the name of the Araucanians so famous that it were improper now to change the appellation.

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Ercilla has devoted the twenty-fourth canto of the Araucana to the splendid episode of the battle of Lepanto.

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But in Portugal there had arisen a poet, in comparison of whose glory that of Ercilla is as nothing.

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It is denied by these writers, that Ercilla excelled all his contemporaries in heroic song.

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