L. 70. _cette vierge dansante._ The first editor had altered this into
'cette vierge _charmante_,' either because the epithet recurs at ll. 61,
89, or because he objected to this declension, or rather adjectival use,
of the past participle. For this syntactical feature see Darmesteter
et Hatzfeld, _Le seizième siècle en France_, §210; Haase, §91. See also
note to p. 62, l. 19.
L. 71. Pallas (_Od._ i. 58) represents Ulysses as longing to see 'His
country's smoke leap from her chimney tops.'--CHAPMAN.
L. 74. _enchante ta vieillesse._ An easy correction would be
_enchantent_, which would not spoil the metre, but, as a rule, Chénier
makes the verb agree with the last subject. See Ayer, §217.
Ll. 76, 77. Tibullus, i. 3. 8.
L. 80. _Viendras-tu point...?_ The omission of _ne_ in direct
interrogation, very frequent in the seventeenth century, is still to
be met with in modern poetry, e.g.: '_Viendras-tu pas_ voir mes
ondines?'--V. Hugo, _Ballades_, 4. (Haase, §101 A.)
L. 84. Racine, _Phèdre_, I. iii: 'Ariane, ma soeur, de quel amour
_blessée_...'