n'importe. This phrase is short for U nUmporte

21. en lançant. See note to 91, L 15. Here translate en by by.'

— . avec la plus grande. In translation add ' possible ' or say •at top.'

24. en voiture. The French omit the verb, the English say * take your seats.'

80. la marche, etc Lit • progress forward began again.' This will do ; or one may throw the noun into the verb and say ' the train began to move forward again.'

37. rails. This word is borrowed ft^m English because the thing railway was invented in England. Gf. hijtetk, club, eon" fortaJble, groom, railway, rosbif, etc, all borrowed wordii in common French use.

1. plus . • • mietix. Plus, mieux, motna, autant are time repeated at the beginning of two clauses: e.g. plus je le vois, plus je Vadmire, * the more I see him, the more I admire him ; * or plus je le vois, moins je Vadmire, *the more ...» tho less • . .*

6. le seul qui n^eût pas été. Translate by tho pluperfect indicative. The French idiom requires the subjunctive when the antecedent to the relative is le seul, Vunique, le peu, le premier, le dernier, unless one wants to call attention to a fact. Then the indicative is used : e.g. la première personne que j*ai rencontrée, (fest vous.

5. pour arriver. See note to- 100, 1. 6. Bender pour with the infinitive by * to ' or *in order to.'

1. Xandius. Very little is known about ^sop. It seems certain that he was long a slave, and that among his masters were the Samians Xanthus and ladmon, the latter of whom gave Msop his freedom. If, as Herodotus asserts, -^Esop was fellow-slave to Rhodope, a Greek Cinderella who came to hijrh fortune under Amasis, King of Egypt (acceded b.o. 569), and if -^Esop was born in B.O. 619, freedom was long in finding him. He is said to have died, possibly murdered by the Delphians, between b.o. 550 and 544.

9. auqud U tenait. Tenir is used intransitively with à, both in the literal and figurative meaning of ' to be attached to : ' e.g. eUe tient à la parenté", * she is attached to her relations/ in familiar phrase * sticks to the family ; ' ce tableau tient à un clou, lit. ' this picture holds by a nail.'