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3. CL un ami = qui sont à un ami. In English we simply say * of.’

La Cigale chez les Fourmis,

— . dans ma journée, ‘in my day’s work.’ Distinguish jour and journée. Jour is the period of tweuty-four lionrs ; journée refers to tlie wbole duration, or varions stages of the day. Je vous verrai dans la journée, ‘ I shall see you in the course of the day.’ Similarly matin and matinée, soir and soirée,

4. comme Titus, Titus, according to the story, was wont to exclaim, Diem perdidi 1 when he had passed a day without doing good to any one.

5. in partibus, Keep the Latin phrase. In the Koman Catholic Church bishops are sometimes appointed in partibus infidelium (i,e, in tlie ‘ parts ’ or countries of the unbelievers), as the phrase goes, i,e, without sees. The phrase is ironically applied to ministers, ambassadors, etc., without functions. We even hear that Jacques II (of England) a la cour de Louis XIV (after 1688) était roi in partibus, So Paul here was a millionaire, if you will ; but without the millions 1 They belonged to others.

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