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v. 11. Sur les lieux mêmes, on the very spot. The adjective même is translatée! by same when preceding the noun, and by very when foLlowing it. v j

2. 1. Larmes. Cf. with the following quotation r " From the summit o£ one o£ thèse ( Alpuxarra niountains), the unfortunate Boabdil took his last look at Granada ; it bears a name expressive of his sorrows, La Cuesta de las Lagrimas (the hill of the tears)... It (the summit of the rock) is still denominated el ultimo suspiro del Moro (the last sigh of the Moor)."— "The Alhambra," W.

Irving.

2. 3. Pleure. PerezdeHita (" Civil Warsof Granada," Part I, Ch. XVII) relates that "ne (the king) began to weep for what he had lost ; on seeing him in tears, his mother told him he could indeed weep for what he had been unable to défend."

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