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P. 6j, 1. II. injures, harm.

1. 12. Les destins... (Zi. Cicero, de Nat. Deor.: "sejungi non potest fortuna ab inconstantia."

1. 23. Si vous en snvez un, if you know one; savoir hère for connaître. There is a slight différence between tlie meaning of malheureux and that of misérable ; the former, as the etymology shews (O. F. heur, from the L. ajiguriitm), signifies nnlucky ; the latter means worthy 0] compassion.

I. 25. Thamyris, a poet of Thrace, supposed to bave been strnck with blindness by the Muses whom he had challenged in a musical contest.

1. 27. Œdipe. On the circumstance that Œdipus put out his own eyes, see Sophocles, Œdip. Tyr. 447, 713, 731.

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