[449] =dirección más inteligente=, _i.e._, de San Martín. [450] =se veía... entrañas=, _saw its very vitals torn_. [451] =un ejército=, _i.e._, =el ejército del Norte= under Belgrano's command. [452] =de otro=, _i.e._, San Martín's army. [453] =guerra civil=. From the very beginning there was, as in the United States, a "Tory" party in Argentina that stood against independence. [454] =aquél=, _i.e._, Belgrano, who defeated the Spaniards in the battles of Salta and Tucumán. [455] =el general La Paz= (José María), Argentine statesman and general who, in defense of the unitarian cause, fought against Rosas and made himself famous during the eight-year siege of Montevideo (1835-1843). [456] =el Dr. Vélez Sársfield=, famous Argentine statesman and jurist; author of the Argentine Civil Code. [457] =constituído=, _placed_. [458] =Alí-Bajá de Monvoisin=, reference to the painting by the French artist Monvoisin of Ali Pasha, who was known for his cruelty in Albania and put to death in 1822. [459] =Ravel= (Pierre-Alfred), French actor of the nineteenth century. [460] =estudiante de Brienne=, _i.e._, Napoleon, who studied at the military school of that name. [461] =Mameluco oscuro=, _i.e._, Mehemet-Ali, who, though not a Mameluke himself, fought with the Mamelukes against Napoleon in 1798, and later became Viceroy of Egypt. Cf. 70, 3. [462] =Medusa=, one of three sisters in Greek mythology, whose hair was turned into a tangle of serpents because she incurred the wrath of Minerva. Any one who looked at her was turned to stone. [463] =no había cómo hacerlo callar=, _there was no way of making him keep quiet_. [464] =famoso expediente=. When two women came before Solomon, each claiming a newly born child as hers, he ordered that the child be cut into two parts so that each claimant might have a half. The true mother was found to be the one who, for the love of her son, abandoned her claim rather than cause his death. [465] =amanezca mañana=, _appears at dawn tomorrow_. [466] =¡tú eres...!= _you are the culprit!_ [467] =que está=... The antecedent is =él=, referring to =Facundo=. [468] =que nada desmiente=, _that nothing can belie_. [469] =Júpiter Tonante=. Jupiter was represented as the Thunderer in Greek mythology. [470] =después de habérselo anunciado=. The more correct usage is, =después que se lo han anunciado=. [471] =continuando de=, unusual for =continuando a=. [472] =el movimiento revolucionario de nuestra literatura=. The publication of Echeverría's _La Cautiva_ in 1837 inaugurated a movement towards the Americanization of literature in Argentina. Cf. 24, 13. [473] =Podría presentársele=, _He might be presented_. [474] =las obras de Echeverría=. His most important works are _Elvira o la novia del Plata_, _Los Consuelos_, _Lara o la Partida_, _Las Rimas_ (which contain among other shorter poems _La Cautiva_), _El Dogma Socialista_, and _Cantos a Mayo_.