This statement rests on no reliablc historical évidence

31. Jeux Olympiques = 01ympic games, the greatest of the nations festivals of the Greeks. They werecelebrated at Olympia in Elis (see th< interesting article in William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiqttities, Boston, London, 1849, p. 828 et seq.).

32. Conspirer = M. F. concourir, in this sensé. In M. F. 'conspirer' has generally the meaning of to plot.

33. Minos, a King of Crète, who after deaih became a judge in the infernal régions, thanl#s to his great wisdom. Cecrops, an Egyptian who is held to hâve founded Athens (sixteenth century B.C.). Theseu.*, the fabulons hero of Greece, who killed in the Labyrinth <>f Crète the Minotaur, a monster which fed on human flesh. Ile became King of

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Athens. Codrus, the last King of Athens, the legendary patriot who sacrificed his life in battle against the Dorians in order to secure (twelfth century u.c.) the victory to his people. The last four were descendants of Hercules, who arrived in the Peloponnesus during the twelfth century B.c. The name of the last should be Procles. He ruled in Sparta.

34. Areopagus ("Aprçs, Mars, 7^705, hill), thus called because it was held on Mars' Hill. It had at first political as well as judicial functions, and was, therefore, not an imitation of the Egyptian Tribunals. Another dérivation of the word is àpâ, 'a curse,' hence the Hill of Cursing, from the fact that the 'ApaL, Furies or Curses, had a sanctuary near by. The hill stood to the west of the Acropolis.

35. Pittacus, Hpavvoî of Mitylene, one of the seven wise men of Greece (652-569 B.c.). Philolas, a philosopher who lived during the fifth century b.c., and explained the théories of his master Pythagoras. See also Bossuet, I., note 49.

36. En réglait le pouvoir = M. F. réglait leur pouvoir. See Bossuet, t., note 14.