82. ROCHE FOUCALD: François La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680). A French moralist known for his "Maxims" published in 1665. LA BOUGIVE: In the edition of Poe's works prepared by Edmund Clarence Stedman and Professor George Edward Woodberry, this name is given as La Bruyère. Jean de La Bruyère (1645-1696) was a French moralist. MACHIAVELLI: Nicolo Machiavelli (1469-1527). A celebrated statesman and writer of Florence, Italy, whose book "The Prince" is based on unscrupulous principles. CAMPANELLA: Tomaso Campanella (1568-1639). An Italian writer. 83. RECHERCHÉ: (French) _far-fetched_. POLITICAL: a rare word, meaning "pertaining to the police." 84. NON DISTRIBUTIO MEDII: (Latin) _a non-distribution of the middle, or the undistributed middle_. This is a mistake in reasoning. When the Prefect reasons that all fools are poets, therefore all poets are fools, he has no middle term at all; that is, no class of which poets and fools are both members. Correct reasoning is represented by this: all men are mortal; John is a man; therefore John is mortal. Between mortal and John, two terms, there is a middle term, men, of which both are members. DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS a higher form of mathematics. PAR EXCELLENCE: (French) _above all_. IL Y A, etc.: (French). _The odds are that every public idea, every accepted convention, is a foolish trick, for it is suitable for the greatest number._ CHAMFORT: Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794). A French writer of maxims. AMBITUS: (Latin) _a going around_. Poe means by this example and by those that follow that mere similarity of two words does not make them of the same meaning. 85. BRYANT: Jacob Bryant (1715-1804). An English writer on mythology. 86. INTRIGANT: (French) _intriger_. 87. VIS INERTIÆ: (Latin) _the force of inertia_, the same as _inertia_, a term of physics which denotes the tendency of a body to remain at rest or in motion. 88. MINISTERIAL HÔTEL: house of the minister or cabinet officer. 92. FACILIS DESCENSUS AVERNI: a misquotation from Vergil's "Aeneid," Book VI, line 126. It should be "facilis descensus Averno," _easy is the descent to Avernus_. CATALANI: Angelica Catalani (1779-1849). An Italian singer. MONSTRUM HORRENDUM: (Latin) _a horrible monster_, the epithet applied to the one-eyed giant, Polyphemus, in Vergil's "Aeneid," Book III, line 658. UN DESSEIN, etc.: (French). _A design so fatal, if it is not worthy of Atrée, it is worthy of Thyeste_. CRÉBILLON'S "ATRÉE": Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1674-1762). A French tragic poet. His play, "Atrée et Thyeste," bears the date 1707. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE