serrée, concise

1. 28. Antoine François Andréossi (1761 — 1828), one of the savants who formed part of the Egyptian expédition, distinguished also as a gênerai.

1. 32. Jean Baptiste de Pongerville (1792 — 1870), knovi^n chiefly for his French translation of Lucretius.

P. 64, 1. I. ce qu^ils soulèvent de mystères = ce de mystères qu'ils soulèvent. Ce is here neuter and corresponds to the L. hoc,

1. 24. Michel de V Hôpital (1505 — 1573), chancellor of France (1560); his Latin poems were published for the first time in 1585.