L. 346. _Io._ The daughter of the river Inachus. Zeus, having fallen
in no French reader of to-day would notice the word. It is a good old
French word. We are thus made aware that it had been falling into disuse
in the seventeenth century (when it occurs several times in La Fontaine
and others), and especially in the eighteenth. E. _reserene_ occurs in
Temple.
FRAGMENT II. This was to be an episode. Alonzo d'Ercilla was a Spanish
poet of the sixteenth century who, in a poem entitled _Araucania_, sang
the conquest, achieved by the Spaniards, of the country south of Chili.
Ll. 24. _aréneuse_, an old, somewhat out-of-the-way word. It occurs in
Rabelais.