essayé de la fuite, ' made an attempt to escape

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L 690. Pûur qui veut être libre. Le. pour celui qui veut, &*c, ^ff vûict /es moyens. En hère = d^ttrt Xxhru

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1. 692. des Gaulois, The Gauls defeated the Roman army at the Allia, B.c. 390, and entered Rome.

ses dieux Lares, The Lares were the tutelar gods of a Roman family. They were the deified ancestors of the family. The City also had its Lares publia,

L 699. dans le Forum, Rather, in the Curia or Senate-house. Another of the familiar classical stories whlch were the daily bread of the Republicans.

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L 716. Oh les Dieux se montraient. Thèse apparitions of friendly deities under human shape are fréquent in Homer and Virgil.

1. 719. la Déesse nouvelle. In the pseudo-classicism of the French Révolution, the worship of Liberty, Nature, Reason, and similar abstractions took the place of the Greek and Roman religion. Caps and trees of Liberty were everywhere, and women often appeared at festivals as goddesses of Liberty, and later on as goddesses of Reason.

L 725. roiympe, Olympus, the mountain where the gods were fabled to dwell.