Procède par à-coups, Proceeded by fits and

starts.

19. Fit le gros dos, lit. : curved his back (like a cat) ; transi. : was bloated up.

17. — 12. Ta dieu!,,, ne vous échauffez pas, ByJove... do not get excited.

23. Aruspices de Cicéron, The aruspices : a class of Roman priests whose chief duty it was to examine the entrails of the victims sacrificed to the gods, and to foretell future events by them. During the last years of the Bepublic, thèse priests enjoyed but little faith, and the educated classe» did not belle ve in

I^. Llna.

their prédictions. The great orator, Cicero, in

his oration De Haruspicum responaia, even

asserted that no two of thèse aruspioes oould

meet without bursting into laughter ; the tezt

has référence to this well known assertion.

18.— 8. Égyptologue. A scholar interested in Eg7ptian archaeology and antiquities.

13. Hippoîyte, Hippolytus, the son of Theseus, King of Athens, who repulsed the love of his stepmother Phaedra.