[208]: French for clyster.—Tr.
[209]: A Greek jurist, compared by Gibbon to Bacon, of great influence in the first half of the sixth century,—dishonest, but able.—Tr.
[210]: The red-deer, and the wild-boar, bear, badger, &c.—Tr.
[211]: i. e. about two kreutzers.—Tr.
[212]: Entity.—Tr.
[213]: "Gesegnete Mahlzeit" is the familiar phrase Richter uses; it was formerly common, at the close of dinner, to shake hands and wish "a blessing on the meal."—Tr.
"Hast thou a friend, take care to keep him,
And often to his threshold wend:
Briers and thorns o'ergrow the path
On which a man neglects to walk."—Old Saying.
Tr.
[215]; Little Britain.—Tr.