r archevêque de Reims, Charles Maurice le Tellier

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1. 4. notre Académie, the Académie Française is meant hère. (See the tables at pp. viiff.)

1. 8. les prologues de Quinault. Not only the prologues but the opéras and tragédies which thèse prologues introduce, are fuU of highflown compliments to Louis XIV and the varions persons of the court.

1. II. par reconnaissance. "The first advances to friendship (in the case of Horace) appear to hâve been made by the emperor, and though the poet took many opportunities of administering courtly flattery to Augustus...yet he seems to hâve been content with the patronage of Msecenas, and to hâve declined the offers of favour and advancement made by Augustus himself." (Smith's Dict. of Greek and Ro??ian Biography, article Horatius.)

par tine indigne faiblesse. *' He (Ovid) has often been reproached with the abjectness of his supplications, and the fulsome flattery towards Augustus by which he sought to render them successful ; nor can thèse charges be denied or altogether defended." {Ibid. article Ovid.)