A soi for à elle, on account of the hiatus

154. Oe que, the object which=the person whom. In such cases ce is a true neuter, although this gender is not otherwise recognized in French.

169-60. J'ai oru . . . détour, I thought U my duty (I thought I <yught) to speak to you franhly llke a mussrUmam. What f ollows is not what would be ezpected to be sald by a lover under such circumstances, but it explains the character of Orosmane. This sort of grandiloquent language Voltaire himself would hâve oensured in another, as he has in Corneille.

168. Du sein des roluptés, surrounded by pUasures {from amid pleagures).

174. Babylone, the great capital of ancient empires, on the Buphrates.

176. Cf. Comeille's Cinnay act^V, se. 8: Je auiê maître de moi comme de Vunivers.

1 77. Bouillon=Godefroi de Bonillon, duke of Lorraine, leader of the first crusade, who became king' of Jérusalem (1058-1100). Sjrrie, Syria, is the country to the north and northeast of Palestine.

179. Baladin (11S7-1193), a snltan of Egypt, who eztended hia power as far as the confines of Palestine, was famed for his prowess and magnanimity.

180. Asserrit le Jourdain, subjeeted Palestine (the country of the Jordan).