I. 308. crocus is the Latin name of the saffron-flower

Page 145. 1. 313. d^une zone de fête, ' with a festive zone,' i. e. with a cincture on which a joyous ceremony is presented. 7.one is the technical term in pottery.

1. 328. diabase, ' passing over,' 'procession,' from Gr. bui-

Page 146. 11. 372-3. Car ainsi que les grains . . . et lucide^ an allusion to the niaking of glass, by fusing sand with fixed alkalies.

Page 149. 1. 454. Si même . . . essai, ' though I am only capable of an impcrfect attenipt.' Pou-voir is used hère as a transitive verb.

I. 471. stèles, 'stelae,' small columns or pillars without base or capital, used as monuments.

1. 473. sur la double effigie, i. e. on the eflfigy representing two persons.

Page 152. I. 550. outre tous, * beyond ail others,' * higher up than ail the rest.'

Page 163. I. 600. disparaissant et las. The first word is used as a participle and for this reason takcs no s in the plural ; las is an adjective. The construction is somewhat clumsy.

I. 607. arrêté refers to ce rêve', i.e. that dream hxed, realizcd, on the stela.

Page 154. I. 634. Pour sa pompe a formés, * bas formed for her pomp,' i. e. for her magnilîcent retinuc. Gr. nofxirî}, ' a pompous march.'

Page 155. I. 647. Pour qu'il fût . . . récolté, so that it should bring in a harvcst of blessings to his wife.

Page 156. 11. 680-82. c'est du bonheur . . . en chagrin, i. C. it is so niiich timc lost for happincss if the anxioiis cxpcctation whcrein iny fatc trembles is not to bc clouded over and abandoned to the sorrow of old âge.

1. 691. sonnants, ' t'mkVm^,' i.e. Iiearing bells that tinkic. Cf. Gray's Elrg}' : ' And drowsy tinilings lull the distant folds.'