les guerres satiglantes — the wars of the Roses

P. 49, 1. 16. AzAMOGLANS — " enfants chargés dans le sérail des fonctions les plus basses et les plus pénibles." (Littré.)

P. 50, 1. 16. les sai/its monastères. For a description of thèse convents, and of the district in which they are situated, see Col. Leake's Travels in Northern Greece, vol. IV. pp. 268 and foll.

P. 53, 1.15. Bajazet il succeeded to Mahomet in 1481, and died in 1512, poisoned by Selim, his second son.

1. 24. l'île Atlantide. See Plato's Pha-do, 72 e, and also the Cntias. Comp. Grote's Plato, vol. m. 299, 300.

un pilote Génois. Christopher Colu.mbus (1436 — 1506). The discovery of America took place in 1492.

P. 54, 1. 25. Notre maître Platon a dit que les âtiies arrivées à la vie. — See Plato's Timœits.

P. 56, 1. 13. COMMINES {Philippe de), bom 1445, died 1509. His memoirs on the reign of Louis XL are well known. "Il a cette admirable lucidité du bon sens qui sait en tout reconnaître et garder la ligne moyenne entre les extrêmes." (Geruzez.)

1. 20. Emmanuel Chrysolor.\s (1372—1415), distinguished as a grammarian. Demetrius Chalcondylas (1424 — 1512?) taught Greek at Florence and at Milan, edited Homer, Isocrates and Suidas.

1. 22. à sauveté=pour leur sui-eté^ quant et quant eux = avec eux.

1.35. Bibliothèque DE L'EscuRiAL. The palace of the Escurial, near ^ladrid, was built by Philip IL king of Spain, in memory of the victory he obtained in 1557 at Saint Quentin over the French.

P. 57, 1. 9. Herodotus (b.c. 4S4— 4of^)— Tiiucydides (?b. c.

471 — 402 ?) — EURIPIDES(B.C.4So— 302) — SOPHOCLES (?B.C. 495 — 380)

— Plato(b.C. 429 — 347). AU thèse authors are so well known that we need only mention the dates of their birth and death.

1. 36. John Lascaris, surnamed Rhyiidaceniis, because he was born near Rhyndacus in Phrygia (?I445 — '535)) was received at Florence by Lorenzo de Medici (1448 — 1492), and then summoned to France by king Charles VIII. (r470 — 1498); he enjoyed the friendship of Louis XII. (1462 — 1515), and Francis I. (1494 — 1.-47), who sent him as ambassador to Venice. Pope Léo X. (yo/in de Medici, 1475 — 1521) was also his patron.

P. 58, 1. 27. Francesco Phii.elpho (1398 — 1481), a writer and diplomatist, taught literature and philosophy in various towns of Italy.

L'Aveugle.

P. 60, 1. I. Dim, dont Varc est d'argent. Cf. Homer, 77/^?^ r. 37. KKZd'i fjiev, 'ApyvpÙTo^'. Homeric Hymn l. 40, Kal KXdpos alyXrjecraa. Homer, liiad I. 39, Xpnvôev. — Claros, a town in lonia, between Colophon and Lebedos. ApoUo is said to hâve been honoured by the Phrygians with the epithet Smintheus for having delivered their country from a plague of rats.