[475] =Cuando se trata de evitar que los hombres de letras se puerilicen=, _When it is a question of keeping men of letters from becoming childish_. [476] =desdeñoso como Horacio=. The Latin poet Horace has expressed his distaste for the rabble in his often-quoted verse: _Odi profanum vulgus_, "_I hate the ignorant rabble_." [477] =el bienvenido=, _i.e._, =el escritor bienvenido=, _the favorite writer_. [478] =el malogrado argentino=. Besides his voyage to Europe in 1825, Echeverría had to exile himself from his country twice owing to the persecution of the Dictator Rosas. [479] =que se refieren al bien de la sociedad=, _which deal with the welfare of society_. [480] =la invisible confidente=, _i.e._, =la musa=. [481] =Rompió la tradición clásica=. Cf. 24, 13. [482] =perdiendo=, with concessive force, _though losing_. [483] =Tucumán=. V. map. [484] =las Provincias Unidas de la Plata=. Until 1853, the date of the adoption of the Federal Constitution, the republic of Argentina was known by the above name. [485] =del pueblo que la realizaba=. The pronoun =la= refers to =declaración=, in the previous sentence; trans., _of the people that proclaimed it_. [486] =seis años después=, etc. The first revolutionary uprising took place the 25th of May, 1810. The great victories of Chacabuco and Maipo did not come until 1817 and 1818. [487] =las armas=, _the armies_--by metonymy. [488] =Proclamada=, with concessive force, _Though proclaimed_. [489] =que habría de retardar por otro medio siglo=, _which was to retard for another half century_. It was not till 1853 that the Constitution was adopted. Even then it took some ten years more before the old feud between federalists and unitarians was settled. [490] =las dos grandes revoluciones=, _i.e._, in North and in South America. [491] =a que se lanzara Francia=, _upon which France had embarked_. [492] =un gobierno propio=, _a government of their own_. [493] =imperio militar=, _i.e._, of Napoleon Bonaparte. [494] =Año Terrible=. The period in French history from May 31, 1793, (that is, from the fall of the Girondins), to July 27, 1794, (date of the fall of Robespierre), is known as the "Reign of Terror". [495] =antes bien=, emphatic form of =antes=, _rather_. [496] =a la del Sur=, _i.e._, =por lo que toca a la América del Sur=, _as regards South America_. [497] =una como presunción=, _a certain superior assumption_. [498] =se aguardan=. V. 2, 9. [499] =se apresura=, _is anxious_. [500] =y de aquí=, _and hence it is_. The verb =es= is understood. [501] =esos próceres=, _i.e._, the leaders of the Revolution. [502] =habría pecado por exceso=, _would have gone too far_. [503] =excepto en cuanto reconocían=, _except in so far as they recognized_. [504] =por razón de su origen=, _i.e._, by reason of their common nationality. [505] =hace notar=, _brings out_. [506] =el cabildo abierto=, _the town meeting_.