en branle, ' in fnll swing

20. A qni en voulaient ces elodiesl 'Against whom were thèse belle ■et in inoiion ?' Of. Il m'en veut, ' He owes me a grndge,' and Je m'en •ttu d'avoir fait cela {,i.e. ' I am angry with myself for huviiig dune it ').

Notes to CJiapter III.

SI. foMent déjà informés. He vrog not aware of the treachery o{ Gélambre, wlio, at the same time as be informed the Freuoh royalists in Kngland and the English OoTernment of the departure of the corvette Claymnre, bad sent Word to the représentative of tue Bepublic, le Prieur de la Marne, of the probable place and time of landing of the marquis ou the coast of France.

22. ne sait mon arrivée (i.e. ' ia aware of '). Arriver, of which this is a verbal substautive, is from Lat. adrîpare, through arripare (ninth century) aud arribare (eleventh century). Arriver was firiit a sea-term, and, like its primitive adrîpare, meant ' to corne to shore.' In a twelith-century poem (Lj/e of Gregory the Qreat), a fieheiman pilots travellers to an island in the high sea. " Aftcr many efforts," eays the old poet, "au roclier il les arriva" (i.e. ' made thum touch or reach the shore'). Tbia original mpaning is still visible iii a collection of administr itive rulinga of the thirteenth century in the Livre de Justice, as well as iu tbe présent légal phraseolngy of the Chonnel Islands. " Boatmen," it says, " muy arriver their boatg aud fasten tliem ashore." From the fourteenth century, orrtrer loses its original meaning and takes the more geni ral eense of ' reacliing one's journey's end' auyhow. " We have seen." says M. Ui achat, " in alltr the passing from the metapbor of ' seafaring ' to tbat of ' walking.' " In Cicero, adnare = ' to oume by sea,' and in Papias, ' to corne by land.' So witli the corresponding Word enare (to swim, iu Cicero), which, even in cliissical Latin, signifies 'to oome ' (no matter how). Cf. Verg. Mn., vi. 16 — "Dtedalus . . .

, . . gelidas enavit ad arctos " (i.e. by flying).

8S. pas garde (t'.e. no^otioe of it), 24. en train, ' in the act of.'

26. et offi^it prise an vent, ' gave a hold to the wind.' — Am. Ed.