In the editions by G. de Chénier and Moland this piece appears among
the _Élégies italiennes_, under the title _Éloge de la vieillesse_. A.
Chénier had marked it [Greek: Eleg. ital]. His design is here, as we are
told in one of his notes, to 'contredire pied à pied l'élégie contre la
vieillesse.' The poem has been left unfinished.
L. 5. _Rome d'amours...._ If we are to take this as a genuine
confession, A. Chénier would have been as sensible to the charms of
the Roman beauties as he is known to have been to those of the Parisian
belles.