Eurydice, the wile of Orpheus

P. 70, 1. 2. au cercueil, in her coffin (O. F. sarcueil, sarcueu, from the L. sarcophagtis). In the arrondissement of Lisieux is a place called Cercueux, which in mediseval documents is called ecclesia de sarcophagis.

bruyères, heather (O. F. bruière, from the L. brugarid).

1. 13. décombres, ruins, rubbish, from an obsolète substantive <r^;«3;r, a heap (L. cumulus, cum'lus, L. L. cumbrus).

1, 17. Mânes des trois cents [Spartiates).

1. 27. Taygète, a chain of mountains in Peloponnesus. Its highest summit is south of Sparta. " Le Taygète ... justement comparé aux Alpes par Polybe, mais aux Alpes sous un plus beau ciel." {Chateaubriand. )

rives du PÊnée. The Peneus (now Salembrià) is a river in Thessaly.

1. 28. sombre Tempé, the well-known valley in Thessaly so often sung by the poets.

1. 35. dti Parthénon. The temple of Athene. Destroyed by the Persians, it was rebuilt by Pericles with great additional splendour.

1. 36. SuNiUM, the cape of that name forms the southem extremity of Attica. Mount Citheron (now Elatea) was in Bœotia.

P. 71, 1. 5. la tribune, the rostrum.

1. 9. Demosthenes (b.c. 381 — 322). His speeches are a monument of that patriotism which enabled the Greeks in later times to shake off the Turkish yoke.