qui vous va bien, which becomes you well

16. à qui il ne manque que des ailes, to whom wings only are lacking.

17. Voulez-vous quHl en soit ainsi, do you vrish it to be so?

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37. — 16. Apollon^ Apollo, Phœbus, god of the sun, of light, of the arts, of niedicine, of letters, was the son of Jupiter and I^atona, and twin brother of Diana, or the moon. He was born on the island of Delos. He is represented as a handsome young man, holding in his hand an arrow or a lyre.

38. — ^4. Danaîdes ; fifty sisters, daughters of Danaus, king of Argos. Kgyptus, king of Egypt, their uncle, who had fifty sons, wished to compel them to niarry his sons. Danaus secretly agreed with his daughters that they should kill their husbands on their wedding night. Hypermnestra alone, spared her husband, Lyncée. To punish the Danaîdes, Jupiter precipitated them into Tartarus, and condemned them to fill eternally a bottomless barrel.

40. — 18. prudents jusqu*à n* ouvrir Leur cœur que^ prudent to the extent of opening their hearts only as.