L. 203. _élever sa langue_ for _élever la voix_ is decidedly
indefensible. But Chénier carefully avoids obvious alliances of words.
See note to p. 64, l. 4.
L. 205. _Sans craindre qu'un affront ne trouble._ The second negative
_ne_ had better have been left out. The strict rule is to omit it after
_sans_. Yet several instances of _sans que... ne_ and even _sans que...
ne... point_ occur in the seventeenth century, namely in Mme de Sévigné.
See Haase, § 103 B.
L. 206. _L'indigent se méfie._ Menander in Stobaeus, _Florilegium_,
xcvi. _Od._ vii. 307.
L. 209. A reminiscence of Horace, _Od._ ii. 9. The same thought occurs
again at p. 66, l. 4.