voyaient bien, *saw enough of

Miltiade, the Athenian Miltiades, tyrant of the Chersonese, who, being driven from his dominions by the Persians, took refuge at Athens, and commanded the Athenian army at the battle of Marathon.

1. 1708. Il se moque de nous, the Jacobin workman thinks that what he cannot understand is meant for ridicule.

muscadin, * dandy,* or *fop.* Itwas a nickname formed from musc, musk, with which the exquisites were supposed to perfume themselves.

1. 1712. Quatre ans passés, on July i2th, 1789, really, when Camille Desmoulins had sprung up on a table in the Palais Royal gardens and harangued the people, giving them as a cockade a green leaf — green being the colour of hope.

L 1715. Nul à la commencer n* osait jouer sa tête, *no one dared to stake his head by beginning it.*

L 1721. Montons au Capitole. Another classical allusion. Scipio

Africanus, when accused of taking bribes, côntented himself with de-

claring that this was the day on which he conquered Hannibal at

Zama, and calling on the Romans to go with him to the Capitol and

tbânk the gods.

L 1724. léger, *fickle.'

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