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49 8 — A trop d'excès, for est trop grand. (Lat. excessus,
properly, a standing out, a projecting beyond a certain limit.) N.B. — Fr. substanlives derived from Latin words ending in essus hâve invariably the termination es, and are masc, as abcès, accès, congrès, cyprès, décès, excès, exprès, i>rocès, prof es, progrès, succès.
49 13 — In Modem Fr. fort preceded by si would be a pleonasm to be avoided.
49 18 — Comme . . . vous portez le trépas, for comment vous supportez . . . — Trépas, death, is the verbal subst. of trépasser, to die ; in Old Fr. trespasser, from Low Lat. tratispassare, properly, to pass across, then, to die.
raqe 49//;;^ 26— Je doute : I wonder.— Etym., douh-r, properly, to
doubt, from Lat. dubitare, diiUiare, whence
the 0kl Fr. doiibter.
50 4 — Dans leur intérêt, for dans ce qui les intéresse, and
here^dans ce qui les afflige.
50 7 — Elle refers to " ma compassion," in I. 5.
^o 9 — En refers to "votre affliction," in 1. 6.
rQ 12— Prix : Recompense, rewards. For Etym., j-,?^ note,
50 20— Et c'est dont, ellipsisT^r "et c'est f^dont . . ." ^o 23 — Gens de bien : Guod, honest, upright men.
50 32 — Il y va de (idiomatic expression) : Are at
stake. — "Il y va de votre honneur," your lionour is at stake. — Va is tlie 3r(i pers. sing. of the près. Ind. of aller, which is the most irregular v. in the French language. It has borrovved its tenses from three Lat. verbs : — (i) From vadere, the first three persons of the sing., and the 3rd of the pi. of the près. Ind., as well as the 2nd pers. sing. of the Imp. ; (2) from ire, the Future and Condilional ; {3) ail the other tenses from aller, in Old Fr. aler and oier, from the Merovingian Lat. anare, a soft ïoïm oî ad lia re (which properly signifies "to corne by water," but which in Papias is used for " to come by land ").
51 6 — L'heur: Scenoit on p. 4, 1. 35.
51 17 — Il plaira l'endurer, for il plaira de l'endurer, il plaira de les laisser durer. For Etym. ol plaire S6'^ notes, p. 3, 1. II, and p. 34, 1. 26.
51 19— Coup,/i3r forfait, crime. For Etym., see note,
51 23— D'un frère si cruel . • ., rather forced inversion for rejaillir au visage d'un frère si cruel.
51 30 — Peine: Punishment (from Lat. j9û;«û:),
52 I — According to Roman tradition, Romulus and
Remus replaced on the throne of Alba Longa, Munitor, their grandfather, by killing his younger brother, Amulius, who had usurped it. Valerius forgets hère the niurder of Remus by Romulus, which TuUius will soon fitly mention. {See'ç. 58, 1. II.)
52 8 — Avis, ^r opinion, sentiment.
52 12— Son bien: His own property.
52 15— Prêt de, for prêt à. — Etym. Prêt, in Old French prcst, from Low Lat. praestus (in several inscriptions under the Empire), ready.
52 19 — Conspirent, /<7r concourent au même but : Concur. (Lat. conspirare [cum, spiro], properly, to
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hlow together, and especially, to agrée, to harmonise.
Page 52 Hue 24 — L'écorce, for extérieur, apparence. — Etym. écoree, bark, formerly escorcc, from Low Lat. excorticea, from corticem, ace. of cortex, bark, rind, shell, huU.
53 II — Coups, yiT exploits. For Etym., .r^e note, p. 38, 1.
53 20 — Congé, for permission : Leave. (From Lat. co??imeatiis, leave of absence, written comiatiis in the eighth century, which gave the Provençal coinjnt, and the French congé. — Sortir, for être versé — i.e., I do not dare to shed . . .
53 21 — Aveu, for autorisation, consentement.
