Scène I

Fage 3 line I — Ecartez : Banish. Ecarter, lit to divert, turn

aside ; formerly " escarter^ compound of ex and carte. Ecarter, originally a term of cardplaying, means properly to put the cards aside, reject them ; thence by extension to reject generally.

3 2 — Goûttz : Enjoy. From goûter, lit. to taste ; from

the Latin gustare. 3 5 — Mes-ène : Messena, the capital of Messenia, in the

Peloponnesus ; now Mavromati.

3 6 — Sort de : Rises from.

4 2— Saccagements : Pillaging. From the Italian

sacchegiare.

4 5— Les organes des lois : The judges. 4 6 — Libres : Unfettered.

4 il — Encor : Still. In verse this word may Le spelt with or without the e, according as two or three sy Habit s are required. Lat., hanc horam (up to this hour).

4 14 — D'un pas rapide : With hasty steps.

4 15 — En foule : In great numbers. Lit. crowd.

4 16 — Elide : Elis, a country on the west coast of the Peloponnesus.

4 22 — De l'homicide: Homicidal. From the Lat. homicidium — homo, man, and cœdere, to kill.

4 23 — Alcide : Alcides. Name frequently given to Her-

cules, on account of being the grandson of Alceus.

5 2 — Détourner : Divert. Lit. to turn away.

5 6 — Eplorés : Tear-fraught ; in tears, weeping.

5 7 — Pleurez: Mourn. Lit. weep.

5 10 — S'accrut : From accroître. Not to be mistaken with

accroire.

5 15 — Dont il sort : From whom he springs. 5 16 — En butte à : Exposed to.

Page 5 line 20 — Périsse la marâtre : May that stepmother perisb.

Marâtre (from the Low Lat. matrasta, dim. of mater) meant formerly stepmother only, but is nowadays and in this passage used as an abusive term. Belle-mère is the polite expression for stepmother.

5 23 — Hériter : This verb is always followed by the

préposition de. Notice. — Il a hérité d'une grande fortune ; il a hérité de sa tante.

6 2 — Que m'importe : What avails me.

6 2 — Ce jour que je respire : This life. Respirer le jour, lit. to breathe the day, is often used in poetry for vivre, exister,

6 3 — Je dus y renoncer alors que : I was obliged to renounce it at the time when.

6 O — Sanglants : Covered with biood.

6 9 — Embrasées : In fiâmes. Embraser, to set on fire (not to be confounded with embrasser, to embrace, from Lat. in and brackia), is derived from en and braise (burning embers), from Old Germ. bi'asen, to burn ; from bras, fire.

6 10 — Lambris : Ceilings. Lit. panellings ; from Old French lambre and the Lat. lamina.

6 13 — Nageant : Sweltering. Lit. to swim, from Lat.

navigare (used by Ovid for " to swim "), by regular contraction of navigare to navigare, whence nager.

6 16 — Trépas (Lat. irans. passus) is often used in poetry instead of mort.