X. DRYAS.

André Chénier had purposed to write sea-bucolics or idylls, which his notes, in which he indicates the _genre_ of his poems by Greek abbreviations, designate as [Greek: Bouk. enal.] (that is, [Greek: Boukolika enalia]), [Greek: Eid. enal.] (i.e. [Greek: Eidullia enalia]). Dryas is one of them. It appeared for the first time in G. de Chénier's edition, 1874.

L. 4. _aux mains._ See note to p. 16, l. 308.

L. 6. _tout se jette._ _Tout_, i.e. _tout le monde_, as in 'Femmes, moines, vieillards, _tout_ était descendu.'--La Fontaine, _Fables_, VIII. ix. 4. The verb agrees with _tout_, which sums up the enumeration. Ayer, §217, 3 _b_.

L. 8. _Il remplit et couronne._ Not of course in the sense in which Milton writes: 'Eve... their flowing cups With pleasant liquors _crown'd'_ (_Paradise Lost_, v. 444). This sense is unknown in French. But see Rich, _Dict. of Roman and Greek Antiq._, s.v. 'coronatus.'

L. 19. _dieux humides_, water-gods. Thus Boileau: 'Il [le Rhin] voit fuir à grands pas ses naïades craintives Qui toutes accourant vers leur _humide_ roi...'--_Ep._ iv. This invocation is taken from Propertius, III. vii. 57.

L. 23. _les ondes avares._ The greedy waves.

Ll. 29. _et ses efforts nombreux_... The sentence has been left unfinished.

L. 36. Virgil, _Aen._ iv. 304.