les guerres sanglantes—the wars of the Roses

P. 49, 1. 16. AZAMOGLANS—‘ enfants chargés dans le sérail des fonctions les plus basses et les plus pénibles.” (Zziérré.)

P. 50, 1. 16. es saints monastères. For ἃ description of these convents, and of the district in which they are situated, see Col. Leake's Travels in Northern Greece, vol. 1V. pp. 268 and foll.

P. 53, L1s. BAJAZET 11. succeeded to Mahomet in 1481, and died in 1512, poisoned by Selim, his second son.

1.24 L'ÎLE ATLANTIDE. See Plato’s σα, 72 E, and also the Critias. Comp. Grote’s Plato, vol. III. 299, 300.

un pilote Génois. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (1436—1506). The discovery of America took place in 1492.

P. 54,1.25. Votre maître Platon a dit que les âmes arrivées à la c'e, —See Plato's 7imœus.

P. 56, 1. 13. COMMINES (Zi pe de), born 1448, died 1609. His memoirs on the reign of Louis XI. 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.) | * L'20. EMMANUEL CHRYSOLORAS (1372—1418), distinguished as a grammarian, DEMETRIUS CHALCONDYLAS (1424—1512?) taught Greek at Florence and at Milan, edited Homer, Isocrates and Suidas.

1.22. ἃ sauveté= pour leur sureté— quant εἰ quant eux =avec eux.

1. 35. BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE L'ESCURIAL. The palace of the Escurial, near Madnd, was built by Philip II. king of Spain, in memory of the victory he obtained in 1557 at Saint Quentin over the French.

P. 67, L 9. HERODOTUS (B.C. 484—406)—THUCYDIDES (28. C.' 471—402 ?)}—EURIPIDES (B. C.480—302)—SOPHOCLES (? B.C. 495—380) —PLATO(B.C. 429—347). All these authors are so well known that we need only mention the dates of their birth and death.

. L 36. ΤΟῊΝ LASCARIS, surnamed ÆAyndacenus, because he was born near Rhyndacus in Phrygia (?r445—1535), was received at Florence by Lorenzo de Medici (1448—1492), and then summoned to France by king Charles VIII. (1470—1498); he enjayed the friendship of Louis XII, (r462—1815), and Francis I. (1494—1£47), who sent him as ambassador to Venice. Pone Leo X. (γάρ de Medici, 1475—1521) was also his patron.

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

L'Aveugle.

P. 60,1. 1. Dieu, dont l'arc est d'argent, Cf. Homer, Zliad 1. 37. κλῦθί μευ, ᾿Αργυρύτοξ,. Homeric Hymn I. 40, καὶ κλάρος αἰγλήεσσα. Homer, Z/jad 1. 30, Zyuvôeü.—CLAROS, a town in Ilonia, between Colophon and Lebedos. Apollo is said to have been honoured by the Phrygians with the epithet Swirfheus for having delivered their country from a plague of rats.

. L 8 ÆMolosses. Gr. μολοσσός, a kind of wolf-dog.