m'étourdlssant sur, 'drowning in me the thought cf

57. homérique, 'worthy of the Iliad,' rare in this sensé; •rire homérique* = Moud and hearty laughter.*

l>on à prendre, * fit to catch.'

58. rétourdlssement des actions multipliées, * the dizziness produced by multiplicity of action. *

59. Quelque chose . . . pourtant, ' Yet a false ring could be detected in it.'

62. fît, final subjunctive after qui, meaning ' such as to/ as in Latin.

63-4. mesurer le Capitaine, 'to gauge the gênerai' {i,e. Napoléon). Cf. 'César est le plus grand capitaine de l'antiquité • = 'military leader,' 'gênerai.'

64. Vold always points to what is going to follow ; 'voilà' generally to what has just been said; sometimes used like •voici.

(kS. enseignements, 'lessons.'

174 NOTES. [Ch. V.

72-3. la découverte du camp de César. For Caesar's camp at Portus Itius, which has been identified with Boulogne, see Cses. de B, G, v. 5 et seq,, and cf. Histoire de Jules Cisar^ ii. Bk. iii. ch. viii. pp. 182-185.

74-5. cents. N.B. b because multiplied by neuf and cinq, and not followed by another numéral.

75-^ toujours annoncée, 'always announced as coming' (but never doing so).

76. Dunkerque, * Dunkirk * \dune^ f. = * sand, downs,' kirck (German) = * church *). The foUowing are seaports on the coast of Belgium (then French) and France.

79-80. les premières . . . d'honneur, 'the first stars {ji.e, décorations) of the Légion of Honour.* An originally exclusively military order, founded by Napoléon, in order to fill the place of the aristocracy abolished by the Révolution,

81-2. réduit . . . expression, 'reduced to its simplest expression.*

géométrique. We should say 'algebraical.'