Ll. 1-4. Horace, _Od._ iii, 12.
Ll. 7, 8. Tibulius, I. viii. 7.
L. 20. _Le suit encor._ This hyperbole, frequent in poetry, Chénier
seems to have been particularly fond of. Cf. note to p. 62, l. 39.
L. 22. _nymphes._ _Nymphe_, as well as _coursier_ (l. 24), belonging to
the poetic diction of those days, strike us as blemishes. But if we were
to demur at such details we could hardly read anything written in the
now accepted style.