absorbe, without accusative, p. 4, I

1. 4. contenance, 'bearing,' a meaning which the English word once had, and retains in phrases like ' to put out of countenance.'

Régidiis. One of the heroes of the First Punic War. He was released on parole and sent to Rome in hopes that he would urge his countrymen to make peace with Carthage. Instead of doing so, he pressed them to continue the war, and returned to be tortured to death at Carthage. See Horace, Odes in. 5.

1. 7. Vous ne descendez pas... 'you do not really examine yourself.'

1. 10. la destinée... supply est comptable: we should say, 'not you, but your poor father's destiny as a soldier, is responsible.' Bien is hardly to be translated; the idea is ' it was indeed your father's destiny, not you.'

1. 19. lectures, 'readings,' not of course 'lectures.' Several of Collingwood's letters bear out this statement.

1. 23. an tet)iple. Protestant places of worship are generally so called in France.