He gathers his house and goes
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Tomou os seus penates, o seu brasão, as suas armas, a sua familia, e foi estabelecer-se naquella sesmaria que lhe havia sido concedida por Mem de Sá.
He took his household gods, his coat of arms, his weapons, his family, and went to settle on that sesmaria which had been granted to him by Mem de Sá.
He took his household gods, his coat of arms, his weapons, his family, and went to settle on that sesmaria Mem de Sá had granted him.
The Roman word penates gives the sentence its weight: he is not merely moving house but carrying his whole gods-and-hearth into exile. Everything that made him Portuguese he packs onto the frontier grant, and in that act Alencar founds the little world the rest of the novel will inhabit.
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