et fit date, and established an epoch

11. ces vieillards d'Homère, those old men of Homer. For this allusion to the old men who sat " by the Scœan gâtes," see Homer's Iliad, Book III., 1. 146 et seq. :

"Beside the gâtes they sat, unapt, through âge, For tasks of war, but men of fluent speech, Like the cicadas that within the wood Sit on the trees and utter délicate sounds."

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85.— 17. était venu en trois bateaux, comme le singe de La Fontaine. The expression Arrive en trois bateaux occurs in Le Singe et le Léopard. — La Fontaine, Book IX., Fable III. This proverbial expression, that a thing of which we wish to magnify the importance cornes in three boots, is ancient — being also found in Rabekis — Gargantua, Book I., p. 56.

32. une tête de mort, a deatKs heacL A name given facetiously to a tutor or guardian.

30* — 2. ils en apprécièrent quelques-unes, they staled their opinion of mine.

3. n'allèrent point jusqu'à, did not go so far as to. 8. Qu'est-ce à dire ? what do you say t or, more literally, 1 what kind of a speech is that?'