l’insensible nuit, the imperceptible night

1. 26. Du PENTÉLIQUE, a mountain of Attica celebrated for its quarries of white marble,

1. 31. Ziman, or rather 4m, an Arabic word which means c44/ The Arabic #inaret is formed from the substantive #ar=a tower (properly a beacon-tower).

P. 67,1. 7. MARATHON, celebrated for the victory gained in 400 B.C. by Miltiades over the Persians.

KELIDONOU, COLONE, villages of Attica. Co/onos, now called the church of Saint Euphemia, was celebrated in ancient times for a wood sacred to the Eumenides.

L 8 O penchant de l'Hymette. Penchant, slope. Mount Hymettus was renowned for its honey.

L 22. Du PNyx. The place where the Athenians met to deliberate.

Ἰ. 23 ÂDu COUVENT DE DAPHNÉ. ‘Le monastère de Daphné. bâti sur les débris du temple d’Apollon, et dont l'église est une des plus anciennes de l’Attique.” (CAéreaubriand.)

1.24. CÉPHISE, the Cephisus, a river in Attica. “Je mis pied à terre pour saluer le fleuve et boire de son eau.” (CAéteaubriand.)

1. 26. cette hirondelle, etc. Hirondelle, a swallow. (L. kfr2rd0.)

M. Fauvel was French consul at Athens when M. de Châteaubriand visited Greece : see the Zfinéraire, part 1.

L 27. Que, dans Athène, etc. This phrase is rather involved. It means : “which our entertained looks watched, in its continual 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.” Cazseur, from causer to chat. (L. causari, to defend a cause, then to discuss, then to talk.)

1.33. gazouillement, twitter, from gazoutller, (O. F. gaziller, dimin. of gaser = jaser, to chat). |

P. 68, 1. 7. MEMPHIS, a city in Egypt. à #re-d’aile, very rapidly, This expression is also used figuratively: ‘Le duc de Marlborough marche à fire d’aile au Rhin, et le passa à Coblentz.” (Saixz£ Simon.)

Aux Ruines de la Grèce Paienne.

P. 69, L 16. écorce, the bark (from the L, corficem).

L 20. EURYDICE, the wife of Orpheus.

P. 70, L 2. au cercueil, in her coffin (Ο. F. sarcueil, sarcueu, from the L. sarcophagus). In the arrondissement of Lisieux is a place called Cercueux, which in mediæval documents is called écc/esia de sarco-

Aagis.

? ôruyères, heather (Ο. Εἰ, 6rzière, from the L. brwgaria).

L 13. décombres, ruins, rubbish, from an obsolete substantive combre, a heap (L. cumulus, cum'lus, L. L. cumbrus).

L 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” (C#dteaubriand.)

rives du PÉNÉE. The Peneus (now Sa/embria) is a river in Thessaly.

]. 28. sombre TEMPÉ, the well-known valley in Thessaly 50 often sung by the poets.

L 34 du 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 southern extremity of Atticx Mount Citheron (now £/ufea) was in Bæotia.

P.71,1.5. la tribune, the rostrum.

L 9. DEMOSTHENES (B. C. 381—322). His speeches are ἃ monument of that patriotism which enabled the Greeks in later times to shake off the Turkish yoke.

L 10. MNochers, saïlors, pilots, (from the It. #occhiere).