le cap d'Otrante : the Cape of Otranto, the extrême

south-east point of Italy. Cf. Horace "VValpole's Castle of Otranto.

7. la Linguetta en Albanie : Albania forms the south western portion of European Tiu'key, and extends along the western shore of the Ballcan Peninsula. One of its highlands, which reaches a height of 6642 feet and projects far into the sea, forms Cape Linguetta.

9. Pythag-ore : a famous Grecian philosopher and mathematician (about 586-506 B.c.).

Alcibiade : an Athenian gênerai as remarkable for his uuscrupulousness as for his abilities (450-404 b.c.).

Page i.iNE 4. 10. Scipion : Scipio Africanus tlie Ekler, the victor of Zama, was boru about 235 B.c. and died iu 183 ; Scipio Africanus the Younger, who took and burned Carthage, was born about 187 B.c. and died in 129.

César, the great Roman gênerai, statesman and historian, was boni in 100 B.c. and died in 44.

Pompée : after forming tlie first triunivirate with Caesar and Ci'assus, Pompey turned against Caesar, who defeated him near Pharsalus in Thessaly (49 B.c.), and thus becanie master of the worki.

Cicéron : the most illustrions Roman orator (106-43 B.c.).

Auguste : the first Roman emperor (63 B.C.-14 A.D.).

Horace : the greatest Latin lyric poet (65-8 b.c.).

11. Virgile: the greatest epic, pastoral, and didactic poet of ancient Rome (70-19 b.c.).