English-Portuguese translations for pillars of hercules

• Colunas de Hércules
  O grande Dante Alighieri escreve, na Divina Comédia, que Ulisses, tendo atravessado as Colunas de Hércules, embarcou para novas aventuras marítimas.The great Dante Alighieri writes in the Divine Comedy that, after crossing the Pillars of Hercules, Ulysses set off again across the sea for further adventure.
  Ulisses estava, seguramente, reformado quando atravessou as Colunas de Hércules: depois de toda uma vida passada a lutar em Tróia e depois a regressar a casa, já idoso, retomou a viagem.Ulysses was certainly a pensioner when he crossed the Pillars of Hercules: after spending a whole lifetime fighting at Troy and getting home again afterwards he was an old man when he set out again.

Definition of pillars of hercules

• The two promontories at the Strait of Gibraltar, and thus the western limit of the Mediterranean world

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