S'accommoder avec, to be on good terms with

9. M. F. has indifferently s'en servir or se servir d'eux. When the pronoun en is the indirect object, it is used both of persons and things. Cf. Bossuet, I. 15.

BOSSUBT

•uncils rcgularly held.

il. Satrape, governor of a province. Aftcr thc reign of Darius thcy were nearly indépendant. 12. i i appointaient.

H t, I. 49. The passage referred to is in Alcibiad note).

i he religion taught hy the Persian priests, or Magians.

15. Zoroaster, whose actual name is Zarathoustra ( = the Splendour M), the legendary fminder of the religion of ancient Persia, is said

to hâve lived some 4,000 years ago. His teaching is preserved in the Zend-Avesta, a collection of sacred books that has heen admirably translated into French by James Darmesteter. Oromase — i.e., Ormuzd (Ahrourà-mazdà) — the good god always at war with Ahriman, the god of evil.

16. La porte -court. Cf. Sublime Porte. Bossuet quotes hère Xenophon, Anabasis, Lib. I.