Chapter ROLONG to ROOM of R by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

Coraçones (Khorasanis) the same; Guzerates and Cymdes (Sindis) 25 and 30 fedeas; Fartaquis, 50 fedeas.—Lembrança, 37.

1549.—“…in nova civitate quae Rhomaeum appellatur. Nomen inditum est Rhomaeis, quasi Rhomanis, vocantur enim in totâ Indiâ Rhomaei ii, quos nos communi nomine Geniceros (i.e. Janisaries) vocamus….”—Damiani a Goes, Diensis Oppugnatio—in De Rebus Hispanicis Lusitanicis, Aragonicis, Indicis et Aethiopicis…. Opera, Colon. Agr., 1602, p. 281.

1553.—“The Moors of India not understanding the distinctions of those Provinces of Europe, call the whole of Thrace, Greece, Sclavonia, and the adjacent islands of the Mediterranean Rum, and the men thereof Rumi, a name which properly belongs to that part of Thrace in which lies Constantinople; from the name of New Rome belonging to the latter, Thrace taking that of Romania.”—Barros, IV. iv. 16.

1554.—“Also the said ambassador promised in the name of Idalshaa (see IDALCAN) his lord, that if a fleet of Rumes should invade these parts, Idalshaa should be bound to help and succour us with provisions and mariners at our expense….”—S. Botelho, Tombo, 42.

c. 1555.—“One day (the Emp. Humayun) asked me: ‘Which of the two countries is greatest, that of Rum or of Hindustan ?’ I replied:…‘If by Rum you mean all the countries subject to the Emperor of Constantinople, then India would not form even a sixth part thereof.’…”—Sidi ’Ali, in J. As., ser. I. tom. ix. 148.

1563.—“The Turks are those of the province of Natolia, or (as we now say) Asia Minor; the Rumes are those of Constantinople, and of its empire.”—Garcia De Orta, f. 7.

1572.—

“Persas feroces, Abassis, e Rumes,
Que trazido de Roma o nome tem.…”

Camões, x. 68.

[By Aubertin:

“Fierce Persians, Abyssinians, Rumians,
Whose appellation doth from Rome descend.…”]

1579.—“Without the house…stood foure ancient comely hoare-headed men, cloathed all in red downe to the ground, but attired on their heads not much vnlike the Turkes; these they call Romans, or strangers….”—Drake, World Encompassed, Hak. Soc. 143.

1600.—“A nation called Rumos who have traded many hundred years to Achen. These Rumos come from the Red Sea.”—Capt. J. Davis, in Purchas, i. 117.

1612.—“It happened on a time that Rajah Sekunder, the Son of Rajah Darab, a Roman (Rumi), the name of whose country was Macedonia, and whose title was Zul-Karneini, wished to see the rising of the sun, and with this view he reached the confines of India.”—Sijara Malayu, in J. Indian Archip. v. 125.

1616.—“Rumae, id est Turcae Europaei. In India quippe duplex militum Turcaeorum genus, quorum primi, in Asia orti, qui Turcae dicuntur; alii in Europa qui Constantinopoli quae olim Roma Nova, advocantur, ideoque Rumae, tam ab Indis quam a Lusitanis nomine Graeco [Greek Text] Rwmaioi in Rumas depravato dicuntur.”—Jarric, Thesaurus, ii. 105.

1634.—

“Alli o forte Pacheco se eterniza
Sustentando incansavel o adquirido;
Depois Almeida, que as Estrellas piza
Se fez do Rume, e Malavar temido.”

Malaca Conquistada, ii. 18.

1781.—“These Espanyols are a very western nation, always at war with the Roman Emperors (i.e. the Turkish Sultans); since the latter took from them the city of Ashtenbol (Istambul), about 500 years ago, in which time they have not ceased to wage war with the Roumees.”—Seir Mutaqherin, iii. 336.

1785.—“We herewith transmit a letter…in which an account is given of the conference going on between the Sultan of Room and the English ambassador.”—Letters of Tippoo, p. 224.

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