orée, border (of a wood); to-day rare and Literary word

117.—2. Hic, quos durus amor ...: Æere, those whom an unhappy love...— Aeneid NI, 442. Virgil describes in these lines the abode of unhappy lovers in the infernal regions.

21. usé, worn out. Note here the French meaning of ser as opposed to the English # #se which might be translated by se servir de, employer. Compare the application of the English phrase ‘used up.” In this sentence there is a reference to the pessimistic literature of the beginning of the 1oth century marked by such works as Xené, Obermann, la Confession d’un enfant du siècle, etc.

25. passai, #0#. Passer applied to examinations has not the same force as the English ‘to pass.