Comme aux lacs: as in a vice

4. Qike tel est pris» etc, : that he is entrapped who wished to entrap others.

6. Oars h demi léché: metaphorlo allusion to the popnlar belief that bears liok their youns: to shape them. from this belief the oommon sayinfir: un ours mul léché, applied to a coarse man.

6. BeUérophjon : the oonoaeror of Ohimera, seeinfir he was hated by ail the firods. says Homer, (lUad. cant. vi.. verse 200 and 202) wandered* eatini; away his soul, and shunning the traces of men.