Epwç àvixTjze fiàfav 9 etc. See the Antigone of Sopho

cles, H. 781 et sq.

187. — 10. tenez- vous bien à savoir, are you reatty (bien) anxious to know.

11. Je lis mademoiselle, etc. It would seem that Sylvestre Bonnard hère means himself to be the vieillard aveugle, while the tapisserie à riantes figures was the animated conversation which the two young people were carrying on while he was buried (enseveli) in his book. The subséquent remark of G élis, and the reply that it was a scolie (i. e., a marginal or explanatory note), is doubtless intended to compliment G élis on his exact knowledge of the Greek play.