This fragment is taken from the twenty-third idyll of Gessner.
L. 1. _errante à travers._ This inflected present participle is an
archaism. See Haase, § 91. See also note to p. 25, l. 70, as well as p.
24, l. 61; p. 56, l. 8; p. 62, l. 19.
L. 4. _Le pied-de-chèvre._ The poets of the Pléiade used the compound
_chèvre-pied_.
L. 6. _leur risée._ But only _one_ nymph has been mentioned. It is
understood that she meant to provide sport for her companions.