[Footnote 105: L'Hôpital's Complete Works were edited by Dufey in 1824-1825. He excelled in Latin verse.--T.] [Footnote 106: I have already mentioned d'Ossat's famous Letters addressed to Villeroi.--T.] [Footnote 107: The Abbé François Le Metel, Sieur de Boisrobert (1592-1662), a poet and favourite of the Cardinal de Richelieu, who endowed him with a number of livings, nearly all of which he lost at play. He was one of the founders of the French Academy and worked on its Dictionary.--T.] [Footnote 108: Richelieu created the French Academy in 1635.--T.] [Footnote 109: Richelieu's literary remains include an enormous number of religious works, dramas, Memoirs, correspondence and State papers. Of these, the purely literary works are of no considerable value.--T.] [Footnote 110: The name assumed by Damis in Piron's Comedy of _Métromanie_ (Act I. Scene VIII. ).--B.] [Footnote 111: Solon (_circa_ 638 B.C.--_circa_ 559 B.C.), the great law-giver: "When he had carried his great reforms, elegy became the voice of his calm joy" (JEBB, _Greek Literature_).-T.] [Footnote 112: Simonides of Amorgos (_fl. circa_ 660 B.C.) "wrote the _Archæology of Samos_ in two books of elegiacs, of which no trace now remains" (MAHAFFY, _History of Classical Greek Literature_).-T.] [Footnote 113: Thucydides (_circa_ 471 B.C.--_circa_ 401 B.C.), the famous Greek commander and historian.--T.] [Footnote 114: Demosthenes (385 B.C.--322 B.C.), the statesman and greatest of Greek orators.--T.] [Footnote 115: Xenophon (_circa_ 430 B.C.--post 357 B.C.), the Greek general, historian, essayist and author of the romance of the _Cyropœdia_, led the 10,000 Greeks to the Black Sea after the Battle of Cunaxa and the murder of the Greek generals.--T.] [Footnote 116: Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major (_circa_ 234 B.C.--_circa_ 183 B.C.), and his grandson by adoption, Publius Cornelius Scipio Æmilianus Africanus Major, surnamed also Numantinus (_circa_ 185 B.C.--129 B.C.). It was the latter who was the friend of both Lælius and Terence, in some of whose comedies he is said to have collaborated.--T.] [Footnote 117: Caius Lælius, surnamed Sapiens (_fl. circa_ 140 B.C.), the orator and philosopher, and the chief character in Cicero's _De Amicitia._--T.] [Footnote 118: Publius Terendus Afer (_circa_ 185 B.C.--_circa_ 159 B.C.), the celebrated Roman comic poet.--T.] [Footnote 119: Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 B.C.--43 B.C.), the Roman orator, philosopher and statesman.--T.] [Footnote 120: Caius Julius Cæsar (100 B.C.--44 B.C.). Only the _Commentaries_ are extant of his many writings.--T.] [Footnote 121: Archilochus (_fl. circa_ 700 B.C.), the Greek lyric poet of Paros, famous for his satiric iambic poetry.--T.] [Footnote 122: Sophocles (495 B.C.--406 B.C.), one of the three great tragic poets of Greece.--T.] [Footnote 123: Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), later Lord Verulam (1618), later Viscount St. Albans (1621), philosopher, jurist and statesman.--T.]