Spectandus_.

1194 "O king, live forever!"

1196 entends, as very frequently, = "understand." Note a third use:
"to understand by one's own words," i.e., "to mean."

1213 Je n'ai fait que passer may be translated: "before I had passed
by;" lit. "I only passed by," I needed not to wait, in order to witness
the short-lived triumph of the wicked.

1214 surprendre = "to take unawares."

1231 couronnée = "on the throne."

1256 se plaît de, now rather _se plaît à_.

1264 Cf. Ps. xviii. 9; "he bowed the heavens also, and came down."

1267 Jeune peuple. Cf. l. 56, N. There is also an allusion to the
reconstitution of the Jews as a nation, promised by the king, ll.
1182-1189.

1280 Note that nous is dative. See App. III, N.




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