Ll. 37-42. Virgil, _Georg._ i. 204-207, 252, Chénier, mentioning these
sources, exclaims, 'What verses! and how does one dare write any after
these! Mine, so petty and so inferior, have yet perhaps the advantage of
mentioning Euripus and Malea, places celebrated for shipwrecks.'
L. 40. _Euripe... Malée_. Euripus separates Euboea from the mainland;
Malea is a promontory in Laconia.
L. 46. _jeune homme._ It is the Latin _puer_ (cf. obs. Eng. _boy_), a
servant.