27-Il passe pour tyran
quiconque...

le sert pour...

qui

qui

le souffre
7-N'approche pas de
celui

34-Dont il est idolâtre
24-On n'a vu qu'une
fois

25-Et qu'a... le se-
cond...

26-Changements que
fait, &c.

29-Cher
34-Si le ciel n'eût, etc

He can keep it. See p. 5,1. 21. You are the only one who cannot...and have become. Peculiar use of conditional in admirative sentences

Makes a mortal offence of your liberality

Is deemed a tyrant whoever.. he who serves it a slave... he who...

Does not come near that
which... (Gen. after ap-
proche.)

It (the people) is over-fond
Has been seen but once

And which the second of our
kings exhibited as they
State changes effected by
divine rule. See note, p. 4,
1. 18.
Adjective used adverbially
If heaven had not wished

Rome to lose it. See note, p. 8, 1. 1. and p. 16, 1. 26. Observe the agreement of perdue and défendue with la, i.., la

liberté

6-Ce nom depuis long.
temps ne sert qu'à
l'éblouir

29-N'a fait qu'ouvrir

le champ
32-Qu'a fait du grand
César le cruel par-
ricide qu'élever
38-Le peu qui lui reste

de sang
2-Que l'amour... que
la pitié
5-Qu'elle vous croie
avoir trop acheté
18-Cette pitié l'em-
porte
20-Quelque malheur
qui m'en puisse
arriver

Long since this name has
only helped to mystify her
-(name of liberty) En in
the line following refers to
it also. Observe the
present tense of the verb
after depuis longtemps
Only opened the field

What more did the cruel
murder of the great Cæsar
do than raise, &c.
The little blood left her

Let love...let pity

Thinks she has purchased
too dearly of you
Pity prevails (this pity wins
the day)
Whatever may befall me in

consequence

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23

23

daigner

SCENE II.

22-Que sa peine éton- Let his death intimidate...

ne...

28-Brute s'est abusé

8-C'en est peu que de
n'accepter pas le
bonheur, &c.

17-Si la vertu n'agit

Brutus made a mistake
There is but little prudence
in not accepting the good
you risk your life to acquire
Unless virtue does the work.
(The second negative
omitted with si.)

27-Me seroit une gêne Would be painful to me (a

27

27

28

28

28

28

29

30

30

...

qu'engage

avec nous le seul
bien du pays
24-Ce n'est pas le
moyen...que de

28-Ne fais point d'état
de sa possession
33-Et j'aurois... !

2 Il en faut trouver
un qui la puisse
abuser

II-Dans peu

SCENE II.

19-Plût aux dieux que
César employât
mieux...s'en fît...
m'aimât

21-Que.....touchât.....
pût

Perhaps he (may be that he). Que continued as peut-être que, not to be construed Those whom the good of the country alone leagues with

us

To deprive of life what she loves best is not the way to... See note, p. 6, 1. 16 Value not the possession of

her unless...

And should I have any hopes of her being able to love me. (See note, p. 16, 1. 33.)

One must be found which can deceive her

Shortly

--

Would to the gods that
Cæsar made his kindness
more available made
himself more beloved by
her, or loved me less
That his kindness could
move...and could disarm.
her... (Que is continued

from the government, Plût aux dieux, and
goes on requiring subjunctives)

14-On ne les sent aussi

que quand
15-Et l'on ne recon-
noft...que quand
23-Qu'avant que de
frapper

36

36

26-Voulez; j'y cours;
parole; main;
sein; mânes;
tel; joindre ;
recouvrera; dé-
pens.

SCENE V.

6-Arrache-lui du cœur

ce

Do not keep me any longer
in anxiety. (Infinitival con-
struction-it is too much
to rack me)

If this passion is not... See
note, p. 16, 1. 26
And thus it is that I only
wish to owe it you. (Ad-
verbial construction. See
notes p. 3,1. 5, and p.4, 1. 32
Dares anything to tear his
odious life from one who
enthralls him

Had he seen himself master
of the whole of Asia,
would have esteemed his
throne less than this
name. (Quand governing
past subjunctive as a con-
ditional)

Learn that there is not one
to whom heaven has not
given birth so as to com-
mand... (N'ait, the go-
verned subjunctive, does
not require a second nega-
tive, because the govern-
ment is in the negative)
To trust to thunderbolts for
the punishing of tyrants
Mille, Lat., 1000; fois, from

Lat., vices-times (turns) Voulez, Lat., volo; y, Lat., ibi; cours, Lat., curro ; parole, word, Lat., parabola; main, from Latin, manus; sein, Lat., sinus mânes, shade, departed spirit, Lat., manes; tel, such, Lat., talis; joindre, to join, Lat., jungere; recouvrera, will recover, Lat., recuperare; dépens, expense, Lat., dispendere, tc weigh. (The Romana weighed their money)

Remove this design from his heart; arracher, Lat., eradicare.

9-C'est faire à ma It is inflicting too hard a

haine

law on my hatred. See note, p. 8, 1. 26