on ne s’y était avisé...they had had no idea

1. 36. CATANE (L. Cafana or Cafina), a town on the eastern coast of Sicily, has often been destroyed by earthquakes and by eruptions of Mount Etna (1669, 1693, 1783, 1818).

P. 3, L 1. voile Latine, a lateen (triängular) sail.

1 7. tillac, the deck (from the Scandinavian ##4:/4, a floor). Most French naval terms are of German origih. |

1 11. μη voile, a veil (L. ww»), the L. plural ea gives us the 5. f. voile, a sail.

1.13. ἃ la beauté...by the beauty..fazlle, figure, from fail/er, to cut (L. L. falcare).

1. 18. empereur … CONSTANTINE DRACOSÈS [i403—1453], emperor in 1448. Died heroically on the breach.

le temple de Sainte-Sophie, this church, the finest building in Constantinople, was inaugurated in 537. It is now ἃ mosque.

L 30. d'en laisser franchir le seuil à.:.to allow the threshold to be crossed by...à is here put instead of ar. Thus again: “Et ne vous - Jaissez point séZuire à vos bontés (Molire).—Franchir from franc, had, till the fifteenth century, the meaning of affranckir, to set at liberty.

‘C'est lui qui nous ama tant Qu'il se fit sers pour nous franchir.” (Eustache Deschamps.)

“6 Franchir une rente s’est dit pour s’en délivrer en la-rachetant; de là franchir un fossé pour s’en débarrasser en le sautant.” (Littré) sexs/, threshold, from the L. so/eum, secondary form of so/ea, in Festus,

P.4,L5. jauvourgs, suburbs, (O. F. forbourg, forsbours) from the

L. L. forisburgus. Hence the adject. faswbourien, a person who lives in the suburbs.

Ἰ, 12. appareil, assemblage, display,

. “ L'apparal inouï pour ces mortels nouveaux

De nos vaisseaux ailés qui volaient sur les eaux.” (Vo/aire.)

1,25. Mahomet, dans une seule nuit. See Gibbon's Roman ÆEmbpire, Chap. LxVIN. ‘The real importance of this operation was magnified by the consternation and confidence which it inspired ; but the notorious, unquestionable fact was displayed before the eyes, and is recorded by the pens of the two nations.” | εἶ 28. l'aube du jour.….the dawn of day.. Aube (L. alba) was formerly 50 6} a/0e.

“Ἐπ mer se mettent quand ?’a/be est esclarie.” (Roncevaux.)