Lusiad or Lusiades, a poem of Camoëns in ten cantos, in celebration of the discoveries of the Portuguese in the East Indies, and in which Vasco da Gama is the principal figure; it is a genuine national epic, in which the poet passes in review all the celebrated exploits and feats that glorify the history of Portugal.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Lusatia * Lusitania