[390] Bolívar (Simón). Together with San Martín he brought about South American independence. He had been triumphant in the North and founded the republic of Gran Colombia, now Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1783, and died in 1830. The hopes and ambitions for which he had fought (a great republic by the name of Gran Colombia) had been set at naught in his own times by the revolt of the constituent members.
[391] Chimborazo, lofty mountain and volcano in Ecuador.
[392] Pichincha, volcano in Ecuador; the allied troops of Bolívar and San Martín won a decisive victory over the Spaniards in this vicinity in 1822. Cf. 126, 1.
[393] que. The antecedent is genio, referring to Bolívar in line 3.
[394] todo lo refería a, considered everything in relation to.
[395] Astrea, the goddess of Justice in Greek mythology.
[396] vaso opaco de la Escritura, unassuming chosen vessel of the Scriptures.
[397] This sentence has no principal verb. Supply murió—.
[398] la una, i.e., de Bolívar.
[399] la otra, i.e., de San Martín.