Scène III

53 34 — Dérober : To screen, lit. to steal. For Etym., sca

note, p. 10, 1. 19.

54 13 — Ennuis, /ot- sorrovvs. This word now means only

weariness ; formerly spelt enui, from Lat. in odio, as we see in the Glosées of Cassel, in Charlemagne's time, " in odio habui," I was sick and tired.

54 16 — La trame [des jours] : Life, lit. the thread of life. (I,at. trama, properly the vvoof, weft, or filling of a web.)

54 21 — Trépas, .i".?^ note, p. 49, 1. 18.

54 28— Fâcher : To offend, to make angry. See note,

55 24-.S-.Y note, p, 35, 1. 28.

55 27 — C'est dont je . . .tfor c'est ce dont je ne veux

d'autre témoin que Valère.

55 7— The ancients believcd that laurel was a preserva-

tive against lightning. Corneille had already said in the " Cid " —

Avec tous vos lauriers, craignez encor le foudre.

Act. ii., se. I.

And in " Sophonisbe," represented in 1663, tvventy years after "Horace," we read : —

Afin que vos lauriers me sauvent du tonnerre, Allez aux dieux du ciel joindre ceux de la terre.

Act iii., se. 4.

57 22 — Force, in the plural, means only the strength of the body, 07- troops. — Plus, for les plus. Racine lias also —

Chargeant de mon débris les reliques //?^j chères. " Bajazet," act iii., se. 2.

c 7 24 — Enorme has hère the proper meaning of the Lat. enorinis {ab, norma) from which it is derived

NOTES. "î^

—le., out of rule, unusual, monstrous. Cette action énorme = cette action qui est révoltante par son excès. Ta<'e ç7//«^^o— D'ailleurs: From another point ofview ; M. from ■' elsewhere.— Etym., aillmrs, from Lat. ahorsiimy elsewhere. .

Ç7 -î6— Sans lui : lîut for him ; lit. without lum.— Etym., Sans, formerly sois, from Lat. sine— Lîu, kom illuic, by the loss of the first syllable, which is short'in'the Lat. comediaus.

çS II— .S'ivnote, page 52, 1. I. ,., • ^S i:— Tbis is a réminiscence of wbat tbe bistorian L. Annœus Floms (floruit A.n. 115) liad said : — " Virtus parricidam abstulit et scelus mtra gloriam fuit." cS 21— Sentiment,>r ressentiment: Resentment, anger. cS 27— Mal propice, for impropice : Unpropitious, unfavourable.— Etym., Lat.adj.,/n^///'zw [prcpf), belonging to that wbich is near ; bence, vvitli respect to feeling, favourable, well-disposed, propitioits. ^ 58 31— Tout d'un temps, for en même temps, a la fois : At the same time. Sce note, p. 39, 1. 21.

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