Stényclare : Stenyclaros was a town in Messenia, S. of

Messena ou the Pamisus. A plain to the S. of Mount Ithome and to the E. of Mount Taygetus bore the sarae name.

4. Tyrtée : TjTtaeus (seventh century b.c.), celebrated for his

war-songs, which lived on the lips of the Spartans as long as Sparta was a state. Some of them are in Bergk's Poeéae Lyrici Graeci.

14. des Portes, i.e. des portes de Léondari (see note, p. 12 1. 29).

18. 11. le drog-man, 'the dragoman,' an officiai interpréter of a

légation or embassy in the East.