la famille des Atrées : the so-called Atrides, i.e. the

descendants of Atreus, King of Mycenae, father of Agamemnon and Menelaus, whose woeful fate afforded material to the tragic poets of Greece.

23. Electra (i.e. the bright or brilliant one), the elder sister of

Orestes, whose life she saved from his pursuers. 27. le Xantbe : Xanthus, the chief river of Lycia (in Asia Minor), rising in Mount Taurus, and falling into the Mediterranean. le Scamandre : Scamander, the celebrated river of the Troad, often confounded with the Xanthus. As a mythological personage, the river-god was called Xanthus.

56. 1. l'Hespérie : Hesperia, i.e. tho western land, the name given

by Greek poets to Italy, and by Roman poets to Spain

(Hesperia ultima).

2. l'Arcadie : Arcadia, in the middle of the Peloponnesus, the

Switzerland of Greece.

Lemnos : one of the largest islnnds in the Aegean Sea, between

Mount Athos and the Hellespont.

8. la Crète, a large island in tho Mediterranean. Homer si>eaks

of its hundred cities, now desolated by Turkish misrule. le fameux labyrinthe : tho second labyrinth mentioncd by

the iineienta was that of Crète, where tho Minotaur is said

to hâve dwclt. It was probably some natural cavorn.