des Thermopyles : see note, p

31. compagnon d'Achille: " So said he (Achilles), and Patroclus hearkened to his dear comrade. He cast down a great fleshiug-block in the fire-light, and laid thereon a sheep's back and a fat goat's, and a great hog's chine rich with fat. And Automedon held them for him, while Achilles carved " {Iliad ix. 209, transi, by Lang, Leaf, and Myers).

42. 7. Léda : mother of Castor and Pollux by Zeus, who took the

form of a swan.

30. Pharsale (Pharsalus) : the town of Thessaly near which Caesar defeated Pompey in 48 B.c. Lucan describes the civil war between the two in his Pharsalia.

43. 29. le marais de Lerne : the Lernaean marshes in Argolis,

^s'here dwelt a fabulons monster, a hydra with many heads, which immediately gi-ew again as soon as they were eut off. The destruction of this monster was one of the Twelve Labours of Hercules.

44. 35. des Pélopides : the descendants of Pelops, son of Tantalus,

kiûg of Lydia, who gave his name to the Peloponnesus. Atreus and Tliyestes Avere among his sons.