de pleurer aux veneurs = de pleurer devant les veneurs

à sa mort arrivés, literally arrived to his death, 'who had

arrived to witness his death'.

LIV. LE SERPENT ET LA LIME. iEsop's fables. Phœdrus Lib. IV. 8.

Line 4. n'y rencontra pour tout potage, 'only found there after ail'. 8. tu te prends à, se prendre à 'to attack', 'to tackle'. 19. La Fontaine evidently felt in the same mood as Horace who wrote the celebrated line :

Exegi monumentum sera perennius.

LV. L'OURS ET LES DEUX COMPAGNONS. iEsop's fable 311 Avienus 9.

Line 1. pressés d'argent, 'pressed for money'.