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Page 34//«^20 — Pour l'en garantir : In order to save her from it. — Garantir is derived from garant, guarantee, voucher, from Low Lat. warantus, of German origin ; cf. Engl. warrant.) 34 26 — Duré : Lived ; lit. lasted. (Lat. durare, to hold ont, to continue in existence.)

34 2S — Enfermé, y^r entouré. (Lat. «« and/?r;«flr^, vvhich

in the Vulgate is used for clandere [Isaiah, xxxiii., 15].)

35 4 — Tout beau : Stop, hold.

35 S — Invaincu : Unconquered. This word, now obso-

lète, was much used by writers before Corneille.

35 ïo — The négative ./i?/;?^ is one too many.

35 17 — " Voilà ce fameux ' qu'il mourût,' ce trait du plus

grand sublime, ce mot auquel il n'en est aucun de comparable dans toute l'antiquité. Tout l'auditoire fut si transporté qu'on n'entendit jamais le vers faible qui suit ; et le morceau —

N'eût-il que d'un moment reculé sa défaite, étant plein de chaleur, augmente encore la force du ' qu'il mourût.' Il y a d'autres beauté.s tragiques; mais celle-ci est au premier rang. " (Voltaire.) — Sce note, p. 22, 1. 27.

35 24 — Flétrie, according to the rule, should be spelt fictri, because the object, gloire, comes after the auxiliary v. avoir. — Etym., Flétrir, in Old Fr. flcstre and Jlaistre, which corresponds to the hypothetical Lat. form flaccustir, derived from Jîacccrc, to be flaccid, faded, withered.

35 25 — Tour, yî);- crime, forfait.

35 26 — Met ... au jour : Brings to light, exposes, shows up. — Etym., mettre, from Lat. mittcrc, to send, and, in Mediœval Lat., to place. — Jour, see note, p. 4, 1. 6.

35 2S — Among the ancient Romans the father's authority

was such as to give him power of life and death over his children.

Page 2,^ Une 10 — A plaindre, for regretter. (From Lat. plangtrc, to beat the breast, or head [as a sign of grief], by regular contraction of plâiigZre io plang're, •wh^ncc plan re, z.nà plaindre, to pity.) 35 16 — De la sorte, for de cette sorte = of this kind.