profitant de 'taking advantage of

14. lui peiisa devoir, 'very nearly owed him' note this use of penser and see note. 4. fable XXIX. p. 95.

18. ce chanteur célèbre, Arion the famous lute-player B. C. 700. As he was returning to Corinth from Tarentum, with niuch wealth, the sailors conspired to kili him. Wai-ned of this design by Apollo, Arion asked to play on bis lute and then cast himself into the sea and was carried to Tasnarum by a dolphin. Subsequently he reached Corinth, and having been coufronted with bis would-be murderers who had spread the report of his death, the sailors were put to death.

26. juge-maire, as a commentator says 'the monkey already deserved to be drowned for speaking of a mayor of Athens'.