encore étaient-ils. See note to p

21. il lui mit ... entre les mains. See note to p. 3, 1. 26, and compare : On lui coxtpa la tête. Ils lui lièrent les mains, etc. Germau, Er fiel dem Vater um den Hais, ' He fell upon his father's neck.'

23. Doctrinaux, 'theological books,' works on the doctrine of the church.

Florilèges, lit. 'A collection of flowers,' i.e. Boohs of sélections ; the Cornucopies were also sélections from différent authors.

24. il lui enseignait. Notice that hère the French construction is unlike the Latin. In Latin, verbs of teaching take two accusatives ; in French, their personal object stands in the dative :

Doceo pueras grammaticam, \ ' I teach children the

J'enseigne la grammaire aux enfants,} grammar.'

27. rendaient sobre. The object is missed out ; supply it : * made one sober.' Eemember that ' to make ' before an adjective must be expressed by rendre. Note that the ellipse is preserved through the whole sentence.

31, servaient à. See note to p. 18, 1. 8.

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11. c'était un esprit. 'He,"she,'or 'they,'subjectof the verb

'to be,' must be trauslated in French by ce before a noun, il

before an adjective or a noun used adjectively. Cf. :

C'est un soldat (noun),\,TT • „oldipr ' Il est soldat [v^à].), / ile is a soirtier.

28. lui enseigna. Two classes of verbs govern a dative of the person and an accusative of the thing, viz. : (a) Verbs of saying, asking, permitting, etc. ; (h) Verbs of teaching and giving. But it must be remembered that, while an intinitive after a verb of the tirst group is preceded by de, an infînitive after a verb of the second group is preceded by à. Ex. : Dites-hd de venir, ' Tell him to corne,' but Apprenez-lui à écrire, 'Teach him to Write.' Donnez-leur quelque chose k faire, ' Give them something to do.'