Armed with the pitiless whip
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que o munio do azorrague desapiedado para açoital-os e acabrunhal-os de trabalhos.
who furnished him with the pitiless scourge to flog them and crush them with toils.
The relative clause pins the blame back where it belongs: it is the master who 'munio,' armed, the overseer with the whip — 'azorrague desapiedado,' the pitiless scourge — and set him to flog and grind the people down. The instrument's cruelty is on loan from the man who owns it.
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