Aux = M. F. jusqu'aux, or dans les

43. Bossuet seems to hâve foreseen ail that Egyptology could give as interesting in architecture and art. Egyptology was really founded by Champolïion le Jeune (1790-1832), who interpreted the inscription on the Rossetta stone, and hence found the key that deciphers the ancient

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hieroglyphs of Egypt. This itODC is now a prominent object in the tian Gallery of the British Muséum. The gallery should ho visite. s history.

44. In Rome there arc still twelve obelisks, bot they arc not the principal imminents of this city.

45. If. Fi île grands cilitîces autres que. The Tower of Babel stood in or ncar Babylon. Bah mcans door ; ilou, of //oit, a god. The town was composed of seven square terraces, rising one above the other, with

llcst at the top, resting upon a rectangular base. Titre, inscription. For * Jupiter* in the inscription one should probably read ' Ammon,' the correspond ing Egyptian god.

47. Note the force of the expression Joui de leur sépulcre. Cf. Boîratt*! mnarks on p. 71.

48. The description given by Bossuet shows us why labyrinthe means in its figurative sensé maze. A S)nonym is dédale, from Acu5d\os.

lus is looked upon in Greek mytho'ogy as having constructed the Cretan labyrinth. This is a Greek misspelling of Lope ro-hount — i.e., the temple at the head of the lake.

49. The crocodiles were not regarded as gods, but they were supposed to hâve in them a spark of the divinity which pervaded ail things. According to Herodotus, they were buried, not fed, in the labyrinth.

50. //orner, author of Uiad and Odyssey lived — if he ever lived — in the tenth century b.c. Bossuet gives an appréciation of his work below, p. 99. Pythagoras, a Greek philosopher and mathematician (sixth century u.c.). Ile believed in metempsychosis — i.e.y transmigration of soûls. P/ato, a celebrated Greek philosopher, disciple of Socrates, master of Aristotle (430-347 B.C.). Lycurgus, a King of Sparta, and famous lawgiver (ninth century u.c.). So/on, lawgiver of Athens, one of the seven wise men of Greece (638-559 u.c.). Bossuet's statement that thèse sages went to Egypt is based upon tradition only.