pour procurer des émotûms au prince, to sHr the princé's

feelings,

4. ne s'épargnait guère, lit., did not spare himself; i.e. drank heavily.

5. Bacclina, the god of wiœ. — SilènAi SUenus^ a conpaaion of Bacchus, was bellQved to hâve the gif t of prophecj.

Page 7(K — i. par pure bonté d^ftme, through mert kindness.

2. ne s'aperçut point de sa nullité, did not notice kis own insignificance — that he had become a nobody^