1.1.25
Don Quixote 1.1.25 · Emperor of Trebizond, at least1.1.25Emperor of Trebizond, at least
The new knight already sees the reward, and he hurries to begin.
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Imaginábase3
i·ma·gi·NÁ·ba·se
imagined himself
el1
el
the
pobre2
PO·bre
poor fellowpoor man
ya4
ya
already
coronado5
co·ro·NA·do
crowned
por6
por
by
el7
el
the
valor8
va·LOR
valorworth
de9
de
of
su10
su
his
brazo11
BRA·zo
arm
, por12
por
at
lo13
lo
the
menos14
ME·nos
leastless
, del15
del
of the
imperio16
im·PE·rio
empire
de17
de
of
Trapisonda18
tra·pi·SON·da
Trebizond
; y19
y
and
así20
a·SÍ
sothus
, con21
con
with
estos22
ES·tos
these
tan23
tan
so
agradables24
a·gra·DA·bles
pleasant
pensamientos25
pen·sa·MIEN·tos
thoughts
, llevado26
lle·VA·do
carried away
del27
del
by theof the
estraño28
es·TRA·ño
strange
gusto29
GUS·to
pleasuretaste
que30
que
which
en31
en
in
ellos32
E·llos
them
sentía33
sen·TÍ·a
felt
, se34
se
himself
dio35
dio
gave
priesa36
PRIE·sa
haste
a37
a
to
poner38
po·NER
to put
en39
en
into
efeto40
e·FE·to
effect
lo41
lo
what
que42
que
(that)
deseaba43
de·se·A·ba
longed fordesired
. The poor fellow imagined himself already crowned by the valor of his arm, at least, of the empire of Trebizond; and so, with these so pleasant thoughts, carried away by the strange pleasure he felt in them, he hurried to put into effect what he longed for.
The poor fellow imagined himself already crowned by the valor of his arm, at least, of the empire of Trebizond; and so, with these so pleasant thoughts, carried away by the strange pleasure he felt in them, he hurried to put into effect what he longed for.
Interpretation
The poor man already saw himself crowned, by the valor of his arm, emperor of Trebizond at the very least; and so, carried away by these pleasant thoughts and the strange delight he took in them, he hurried to put his wish into action.
Trebizond, on the Black Sea, was the seat of a small Greek empire from 1204 until the Ottomans took it in 1461. For a Spaniard of 1605 it was a far-off, fabulous throne, the kind the romances hand to a knight at the end of his labors. Spanish also had a common noun, trapisonda, “a racket, a commotion”, so a Spanish ear hears a little noise in the empire he plans to win.
El pobre, “the poor fellow”, is the narrator’s pity breaking in. The rest of the sentence is full of period forms a learner should not copy: Imaginábase (today se imaginaba), estraño, priesa, efeto.
Gustave Doré, the old armor and the nag (1863) · public domain
1.1.26
Don Quixote 1.1.26 · The great-grandfathers’ armor1.1.26The great-grandfathers’ armor
His first practical step: dig out the family armor.
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And the first thing that he did was to clean some armor which had belonged to his great-grandfathers, which, eaten with rust and full of mold, for long ages had lain put away and forgotten in a corner.