de nom, in name only

Page 6 . — I. pour imiter les brutes, to make themselves look like animals.

2. des PoppSe et des ThSodora, of such women as Poppiea and Theodora. The first, secretly married to Nero, instigated the murders of his mother, Agrippina, and his first wife, Octavia, and died from a kick he gave her. The latter was a dissolute stage dancer who became the wife of the emperor Justinian I.