Scène V

32 22 — Sont aux mains : Are figliting. (Lat. manus,

hand.)

33 15 — There ought not to be a comma between non and

que. Non que=not because.

33 24 — Etonnement, for crainte, frayeur. See note, p. 3, 1.7.

33 30 — Mol, for lâche. This adj. [from Lat. mollis) is

now spelt mou in the masc. sing., but the old spelling is kept when the subst. masc. begins with a vowel. In poelry viol is preferred to mott.

34 14 — Cf. Jupiter's answer to Venus. — Virgil, yEn.

i-> 253 — 297 ; but especially the foUowin£ Unes : —

(278 ) His ego nec metas rerum nec tempora pono ;

(279.) Imperium sine fine dedi . . .

(2S2.) Roinanos rerum dominos gentemque togatam . . .

(288,) Imperium oceano, famam qui terminet astris.

" To them I fix neither limits nor duration of

empire ; dominion hâve I given them without

end . . .

• . . "The Romans, the lords of the world,

and the nation wearing the toga.

. . . " Whose (Cœsar's) empire the océan,

whose famé the stars shall bound."