347 Ni is almost always followed by _ne_ without _pas_, because _ne_ is
only attended by its intensifying particle _pas_ when used as the sole
negative in the clause, without any accompanying _rien_, _jamais_,
_aucun_, etc. Here, therefore, there should be no _pas_. Its
introduction creates a sort of anacoluthon, and throws great stress on
the negative.

364 When Pharaoh's host was swallowed up by the Red Sea.

367 paille légère = "chaff."

373 ne . . . que. Cf. l. 13, N.

375 en. See App. V, ii. E.

382 Tout ce . . . de mystères is a construction framed on the analogy
of genitives following adverbs of quantity.

386 fait and not _faite_. See App. III.

392 fuit is the present tense because _qui le fuit_ is equivalent to an
adjective.

404 The story is that, at the death of Gomates, the candidates to the
throne of Persia, unable to settle their rival claims, agreed that he
should be king whose horse should neigh first after sunrise, and that
Darius won the crown through the wit of his servant who led a mare to
the appointed spot in advance. See Herodotus, III. 85-86.

405 idée, by frequent metonymy for _esprit_.