Adjourner, ‘ summons

127. 24. 1 his coarse but vigorous version of the origin of Hippocrene,

the Fons Caballinus,’ (which, however, according to the more graceful classical fable Pegasus produced by stamping with his feet,) is perhaps one of the ‘ rimes cyniques,’ which frightened Boileau. It emphasises Regnier’s contempt so forcibly, and is so characteristic, that even in a book of extracts it seems a pity to omit it.

“ 7 ■ Trouver la pie au nid , familiar for ‘ making a grand discovery.’