XXIV.

This fragment is taken from the twenty-third idyll of Gessner.

L. 1. errante à travers. This inflected present participle is an archaism. See Haase, § 91. See also note to p. 25, l. 70, as well as p. 24, l. 61; p. 56, l. 8; p. 62, l. 19.

L. 4. Le pied-de-chèvre. The poets of the Pléiade used the compound chèvre-pied.

L. 6. leur risée. But only one nymph has been mentioned. It is understood that she meant to provide sport for her companions.