Djébel-Mousa : a summit of the Sinai group

47. — 20. Adonis: a beautiful youth, beloved by Venus. He was killed by a boar. The river Adonis, reddened in the rainy season by the ochre of the Lebanon Mountains, was

fabled by bis worshippers to flow wîth his blood. Cf. Parom dise Last, book I, 455-461 :

Thammus came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties ail a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from hû native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammus yearly wounded.

48* — 12. me manquer à moi-même: not to be tnyself, to be serUyusly tU.

48. — 23. fièvres pernicieuses: malarial fever, very dangerous and rapid in îts course.

49. — 26. J'en étais à l'épisode : / had reached the épisode.