un quart = un quatrième

X. LA MORT ET LE MALHEUREUX, ^sop's fables 90. 90b. As will be seen from the remarks appended to that fable, by La Fontaine himself, he only wrote it so as to bave an opportunity of introducing what he considers ce mot de Mécénaa qui est si heau. The fable is a good one, but much inferior to the one that immediately follows it ; and as for the words of Mécénas they coutain nothing particularly beautiful.

Line 11. Mécénas. The famous favourite of Augustus who befriended Horace and Virgile.