Ll. 191-194. _Od._ xi. 36. _Aeneid_, vi. 305. l. 192, and Dryden's
translation of the corresponding line of Virgil may be compared: 'And
youths entombed before their father's eyes.'
Ll. 197-200. _Od._ viii. 274. Ovid, _Metam._ iv. 175. _Inconnus_, here,
for _invisibles_. The stricture of the first critic of A. Chénier,
Népomucène Lemercier, that the poet 'dénature le sens des mots,' if
generally unjust, may apply to this instance.
L. 201. _il revêtait d'une pierre soudaine_ is very happily said for _il
revêtait soudainement de pierre_.