quaerens quem devoret : cf. in the New Testament, i

Peter v. 8 : ' sobrii estote, et vigilatc : quia ndversarius vester diabolus tanquam leo rugiens circuit, quaerens quem devoret' (Vulgate).

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49. 21. une flûte jouant un solo de trompette ; cf. note p. 39,

,, 25. une quenouille, 'distaff' (used hère as an emblem of the \\eaker se.\). Cf. le trône de France ne tombe pas en quenouille, ' females are, by the Salie law, exxluded from the throne of France. '

50. 17. nous en découdrons : a synonym for nous ttous battrons.

51. 18. sufiBcit ! ' it is enough ! ' a Latin expression often used in

familiar language.

., 23. poignet: cf. —

poing (ni.) (Lat. pugnus), ' fist.' poignée {{.), 'handful,' 'handle.' poignet (m. ), ' wrist. '

poigne (f. ), ' grip ' (a popular expression meaning ' strength ' ) ; e. g. // a une poigne de fer, il a de la poigne.

52. 8. sourirent au courage malheureux : sourire à . . implies

'sympathy,' or 'affection.' , , 19. triomphateurs du Capitole, ' gênerais riding in triumph to the Capitol.' The Roman 'triumph,' or triomphal procession, was a spécial honour granted by the Senate to a victorious gênerai. Preceded by the spoils and captives, and followed by his soldiers, the gênerai rode through the city in a chariot drawn by white horses up to the Capitol, where lie offered a sacrifice in the temple of Jupiter. Behind him, in the chariot, stood a slave, whose duty it was to repeat the following words to the gênerai : ' Look behind you, and remember that you are mortal,' while his soldiers sang songs in his honour, varied by rude jests at his expense, in which the people, in old times, also joined. Sometimes a gênerai, when not thought worthy of a 'triumph,' was allowed an inferior kind of procession called an ' ovatio. ' Hence cornes the modem word ovation, meaning a ' triumphal réception.'