L. 211. _Et tel pleure._ Cf. 'Tel qui rit vendredi, dimanche
pleurera.'--Racine, _Plaideurs_, i. I. Observe the fitness of those two
forms of the same proverb to their several contexts. The _vendredi_ and
_dimanche_, humorous precisions, would never do here.
L. 212. _en tes discours préside_--not '_à_ tes discours.' Chénier
means, not 'wisdom presides over thy discourses,' but 'wisdom rules,
bears sway, prevails, is paramount in thy discourses,' Cf. _Od._ xix.
352; xx. 37.
Ll. 228-231. _Aen._ i. 628.
Ll. 229, 230. _n'a point à l'indigence fait..._, 'has not caused
indigence to envy the destiny of the wealthy Lycus,' The object of
_faire_, which is at the same time the subject of the infinitive
_envier_, is in the dative. See Littré, _Dict._, s. v. 'Faire,'
Remarques 1-5; also Haase, 390.
L. 235. _et te souviens._ This peculiar form of the imperative is used
only when another imperative goes before. Whereas in the ordinary form,
_souviens-toi_, the stressed form of the pronoun is used (as is the
rule when the pronoun is the object of an imperative or a prepositional
object: _écris-moi, nous avons songé à lui_), in this construction
the pronoun preceding the verb follows the rule of all pronouns placed
before verbs and is in the unstressed form.
Ll. 250, 251. Hesiod, _Op. et Dies_, 285.
L. 260. _qu'avait tissus l'Euphrate._ _Tissu_ is the past participle of
the obsolete verb _tistre_, now replaced by _tisser_.