s'acheminer . . à: hère to drift into

17. Hippocrate : Bippocrates, the most celebrated physician of

antiquity (460-377 u.c.).

19. Périclès : the greatest of Athenian statesmen (469-429 B.c.). 27. Cos : an island in the Aegean Sea where Hippocrates was born.

celui de Turin : see 1. 7.

le fameux homme d'État, i.e. Périclès (1. 19), the friend of Aspasia.