Scène I

13 19— Superbe: Proud (in a good sensé); excellent, distinguished. (Lat. superbits.)

13 ?z — D'une, for par une, or à l'aide d'une.

14 5 — A bon titre : Justly, deservedly. (Lat. iitiilus,

by regular contraction of iitiilus to tit'lus, whence titre )

I4 ^-—j\Ia flamme : Mylove. (L2.t.^amma, {or Jlaojna,

the §■ having been assimilated, from flas^rare, to blaze, to burn, akin to Gr. çxÉ-yuy, to blaze up, from çxéf, flame.)

74 8 — En contrainte : In check. ( C(7«/ra/«/i? is the parti-

cipial substantive of contraindre, from Lat. constringere, to hold or bind together, to hold fast, toVetter.)

14 22 — Cercueil : Properly coffin, and Jig. tomb, grave. (This subst., which is a doublet of sarcophage, was spelt sarcîieil in Old Fr., and originally sarcucii, from Lat. sarcophagns, from Gr. aa.fKo:pà'yo! [(râf)^, flesh, and (pocyiTy, to eat, to devour], a coffin made of the stone called xlùos aapxopàyos [the best kind of which was found in tlie quarries of Assos, in Troas], remarkable for consuming the flesh of the corpses laid in it.)

14 23 — M'enfle : Fills me. (Lat. inflare, to inflate, to puff up.)

14 28— A trop cru de moi, /i?r a trop présumé de moi : lias conceived too high an opinion of me, has thought too highly of me. — Etym., trop, from Low Lat. troppus, for grex, a flock, from Old

High Germ. drupo. Troupe and troiipeait corne from the same root. The original meaning of trcppus, or tropus, was a large quantity, and afterwards the adv. trop was used to express an excessive quantity. Cf. the Gaelic drobh, the Engl. drove, from the Anglo-Saxon dràf, subst. of dréjan, which \ve find also in Modem German /r^^A-w, Engl. to drive. — Croire is derived from Lat. credere, to believe ; and the Personal pronoun 7noi, from Lat. viî, contraction oïmihi, the î becoming^/, like in boire, to drink, from bibere.

Pa^e 14 Hjie 30 — Qui, for celui qui : He who ; or quiconque, whoever.

14 31 — Ce noble désespoir, yî?r celui qui désespère noblement.

14 35 — Ce que veut mon pays, mon amitié le craint.

This is akind of hyperbaton {verbi iransgressio, the rhetorical misplacement of a word) called antiptosis=the transposition of the subject from one clause to another.

15 7 — Corneille had already said in the Cid : —

" Mourir pour son pays n'est pas un triste sort, C'est s'immortaliser par une belle mort." —

Act iv., Se. s.

15 8 — Généreux has hère the proper meaning of the Lat

Z.Û']. generosus, noble, superior, excellent.