[L. 111.] tableaux fardés. Counterfeit, spurious. See the obs. verb fard in N.E.D.
[L. 128.] L'ami religieux. The following quotation (from the N.E.D.) may serve for an explanation: 'A man devoted to a man, Loyal, religious in love's hallowed vows.' Porter, Angry wom. Abingd. (Percy Soc.), 37.
[L. 130.] Bavius, a Latin poetaster; see Virgil, Ecl. iii, 90. Zoilus, the detractor of Homer. Gacou, a French satiric poet of the seventeenth century, the libellous detractor of Boileau and J.-B. Rousseau. Linière, another French satiric poet of the seventeenth century, the declared enemy of Chapelain. (See Boileau, Sat. ix. 237.)
[L. 147.] Plutarch relates that Scipio would always take Lelius' advice, which made him say that Lelius was the poet and Scipio the actor. Plutarch, An seni sit ger. resp. xxvii.
[L. 148.] When Phocion, sentenced to death, was on the point of drinking the hemlock, Nicocles besought the favour of drinking first, which request his friend granted. Plutarch, Phoc. xxxvi.
[L. 168.] faisceaux, the fasces.
[L. 201.] âme mutuelle. A new alliance of words, on the analogy of affection mutuelle.
[L. 202.] Cf. Theocritus, Idyll. xii. 18.
[Ll. 207, 208.] ils s'attendent... d'être. S'attendre de is now of rarer occurrence than s'attendre à, but it was not so formerly. 'On ne s'attendait guère De voir Ulysse en cette affaire.' La Fontaine, Fab. X. iii. See LITTRÉ.