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16 14 — Je mets à faire pis, /(7r Je défie défaire pis. {Faire,.
from Lat. facere. — Pis, from Lat. pejiis, by regular contraction of pejus to pefs, whence pis.)
16 23 — The plural oî fortune is never used now without
an epithet, as bonnes et mauvaises fortunes,. fortunes diverses.
17 7 — Vertu has hère the proper meaning of the Lat,
virtus — i.e., manly courage.
Tage 17 Une 8— L'éclat de son grand nom — i.e., l'éclat du grand nom de la vertu.!
17 II — Sec note, p. 4, 1. 17.
17 13 — Nous serons les miroirs : Lit., \ve shall be tlie re-
jlecting mirrors ; i.e., we shall reflect, imitate. —
Etym., Miroir is derived from the v. mirer ^
" tû aim, properly to admire, to look at, from
Lat. jnirari, to admire.
17 14 — Tient un peu du barbare : Is somewhat barbarous, savage, cruel. " Cet enfant tient de son père," this child takes after his father. "Je tiens cette nouvelle de votre ami," I heard this news from your friand. When tenir followed by de is an intransitive verb, it n^eans to be like, to take after ; but it signifies to hold from, to hear from, when transitive. — Etym., Lat. tenere, to hold, which became ienire in the fourth century.
17 24 — Vous a fait, yî^r vous a estimé.
17 31 — Lncor que, for bien que: Although. Etym., encore, formerly ancore, again, from Lat. hanc horam. In poetry we find encore and encor.
17 32 — S'en effarouche : Takes alarm. — Etym., \s&.V. feroccin, ace. of ferox, farouche being the doublet oifcroce.
O terque quaterque beatî Queis ante ora patrum, Troja; sub nuenibus altis Contigit oppetere . . .
— Virgil, JEn. i., 94 et seq.
" O thrice (and four times) happy they who had the good fortune to die before their parents' eyes under the high ramparts of Troy."
iS 2,3 — "Cette tirade fit un effet surprenant sur tout le public, et les deux derniers vers sont devenus un proverbe, ou plutôt une maxime admirable." (Voltaire.)
iS 6 — Dont je fais vanité (vanitéy^r gloire) : Of which I
am proud ; in which I glory.
iS 8 — Read "Et c'est mal entrer dans la carrière de
l'honneur." This inversion is rather forced.
iS 16 — Qui. .Sd'i? note, p. 14, 1. 30.
l5 23,24 — "Je ne vous connais plus." — "Je vous connais encore." " A ces mots, on se récria d'admiration ; on n'avait jamais rien vu de si sublime*, il n'y a pas dans Longin un seul exemple d'ime pareille grandeui-." (Voltaire.)
iS 31— Voici venir is now an obsolète expression.
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Ta^e 19 Ihie l — L'état, for le c\%. Faire cas Je = to hâve great esteem for, to value highly, to make a great account of.
19 14 — Se presse for se resserre : Is oppressée!. (Lat. pressare, to press.)
