Scène II

19 16 — Retentit jusqu'à moi dans le fend : Has resounded

even to me in the depth.

20 4 — Dehors : Exterior,

20 II — A tranché : Cut short. Littré, contrary to the opinion of Diez and Brachet, maintains the Lat. truncare as the etymology of trancher. Cf. English : trench, retrench, trencher ; French : tranchée, retrancher, tranchoir ; une tranche, a cut, a slice.

20 20 — J'en atteste le ciel : I take heaven as a witness. Attester, to attest. From Lat. attestari.

20 21 — Pamise : Pamisus, a river of Messenia.

20 22 — Hercule : The god of strength.

21 19 — Flots : Torrent. Flot, which in the twelfth

century was spelt fluet, cornes from the Lat. jluctus, flow, flood, wave, billow.

21 21— Rendre les armes : To lay down cne's arms.

Page 21 line 22 — Madame : My lad y. Dame, Lat. domina, was at first a title given to the wife of a lord, a knight, a nobleman. Madame is nowadays used in speaking to women of ail classes. 21 25— Que : How.

21 26 — Démêler: Discover. Lit to disentangle.

22 1 — Des rapports si doux : So pleasing a resemblance. 22 6 — Faire naître : To give birth.

22 II— Etat: Profession.

22 16 — Faible étincelle : A light hope (glimmering).

Formerly estincelle, from the Lat. scintilla, 22 21 — Folyclète : The adopted name of Narbas. 22 21 — Sirris : The name of Narbas' wife.

22 23 — Avilit : Demeans.

23 7 — Séduit : Led away.

24 5 — Suit : Is the conséquence of. From suivre, to

folio w.