XXXV. LE BERGER ET LA MER. .Esop's fables

Line 2. Amphitrite, 'Amphitrite' also called Salatia, goddess of the sea, and sometimes the êea, itself. 5. déchargés, 'unloaded'.

Q. si bien = tellement.

7. le mit entier sur l'eau 'invested it in a cargo' literally 'put it entirely on the water'.

12. Corydon, a fictitious name of shepherd frequently found in the poets, and particularly in Virgil, Theocritus &c.

12. Tircis another fictitious name of shepherd. - 13. Pierrot, 'little Peter'.

Line 15. bêtes à laine ^ moutons, compare bêtes à cornes, 'horiied cattle'.

- 24 — 2b. another form of the proverb, 'a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush'.