l'insensible nuit, the imperceptible night

1. 26. Dti Pentélique, a mountain of Attica celebrated for its quarries of white marble.

1. 31. riinan, or rather imâm, an Arabie word which means chicf The Arabie minaret is formed from the substantive nar = a. tower (properly a beacon-tower).

P. 67, 1. 7. Marathon, celebrated for the victory gained in 490 B. C. by Miltiades over the Persians.

Kelidonou, Colone, villages of Attica. Colonos, now called the church of Saint Euphemia, was celebrated in ancient times for a wood sacred to the Eumenides.

1. 8. 0 penchant de V Hymette. Penchant, slope. Mount Hymettus was renowned for its honey.

1. 22. Du Pnyx. The place where the Athenians met to deliberate.

1. 23. Dn COUVENT DE DaphnÉ. " Le monastère de Dapliné, bâti sur les débris du temple d'Apollon, et dont l'église est une des plus anciennes de l'Attique." {Chateaubriand.)

1. 24. CÉPHISE, the Cephisus, a river in Attica. "Je mis pied à terre pour saluer le fleuve et boire de son eau." {Chateaubriand.)

1. 26. cette hirondelle, etc. Hirondelle, a swallow. (L. hirundo.)

M. Fauvel was Fiench consul at Athens when M. de Chateaubriand visited Greece : see the Itinéraire, part i.

1. 2 7. Que, dans Athine, etc. This phrase is rather involved. It means : " which our entertained looks watched, in its continuai flight, as if intoxicated with the sky and with the beautiful temple of Theseus." The temple of Theseus is on the north side of Athens.

1. 32. du nid causeur, literally "the garrulous nest." Causeur, from causer, to chat. (L. causa>-i, to défend a cause, then to discuss, then to talk.)

1. 33. gazouillement, twitter, from gazouiller, (O. F. gaziller, dimin. oï gaser= Jaser, to chat).

P. 68, 1. 7. Memphis, a city in Egypt. à tire-d'aile, very rapidly, This expression is also used figuratively : "Le duc de Marlborough marche à tire d^aile au Rhin, et le passa à Coblentz." (Saint Simon.)