le sens, the (common) sensé

1. 13. Almanachs des Muses. The complète collection of the Almctnachs des Muses (1764 — 1833) forms 69 vols. i6mo. '*Ce recueil a rarement de la valeur par le mérite des poésies." (Vapereau.)

1. 14. Athénées. Several literary societies both in France and in the provinces, founded about the end of the last century, adopted the name of Athénée.

petits vers, trifling poems.

1. 19. Hyacinthe Colin, died 1754. Sa traduction joint au mérite de la fidélité celui d'être écrite d'un style pur et agréable." (Weiss.) 1. 20. Cicero (Marcus Tullius) (B.C. 106 — 43).

Guillau7ne Antoine Le Alonnier (1721 — 1797). His translations of Terence and of Plautus are still held in high estimation. Plautus (T. Maccius) (b.c. 254 — 184) — Terentius Afer (Publius) (b.c. 195 — 159 ?).

1. 23. qui eût fait pendant, which would have been the counterpart.

le père Pierre Brumoy — 1742), a distinguished Jesuit scholar. His Théâtre des Gj^ecs, published for the first time in 1730, has often been re-edited.

1. 24. Cattdlus (C. Valerius) (b.c. 87 — 47 ?) — Horatius Flacctis (Quintus) (b.c. 65 — 8).