niais, * foolish ' ; * un niais *= * a gaby

361. contenance, f. = 'mien,* *bearing.* Countenance=* visage' m. ; 'physionomie,' f. ; 'figure,' f.

M. Atilius Regulus, one of Ihe heroes of the Roman Republic. He was made a prisoner by the Carthaginians, and was sent to Rome with the Carthaginian ambassadors, on giving his word to return, should the negotiations fail. In the Senate he urged the Romans to reject an ignominious peace, and retumed to Carthage to die a martyr's death.