encrêpés, 'shrouded

Page 193. 1. 10. les odalisques, ' the odalisques.' The odalisque is a female slave attached to the harem of the wives of a Sultan.

1. 22. Aspasie de moins. Aspasia, wife of Pericles, was noted as much for her intellect as her personal charm. She personifies that love of beauty and proportion in form and in thought which was the essence of the Greek character. By her influence she gathered round her a coterie of the most celebrated Athenians of her day, including Socrates, Alcibiades, and Pericles, whose wife she afterwards became. It was in no slight measure due to her fostering care of art and literature that the Age of Pericles grew to be the Golden Age of Greece.

1. 24. le Cithéron : Ky thaeron, the range of mountains which lies behind Athens.

le mont Hymette. Mount Hymettus in Attica, famous in classic lore for its marble quarries and its bées.