VII. sur un groupe de jupiter et d’europe. – André Chénier

This piece, Becq de Fouquières remarks, is imitated from an idyll of
Moschus (ii. 95 ff.).

L. 3. Anacreon, xxxv.

Ll. 5-7, Ovid, Met. ii. 874.

L. 7. les pleurs dans les yeux. The current phrase is les larmes aux
yeux.

Ll. 9, 10. Ovid, Fast. v. 611.

L. 10. sous soi. In The Public School Elementary French Grammar by
Brachet we read (par. 96): ‘In modern French, soi is only used when
the subject is on, tout le monde, chacun, etc., or after an
impersonal verb.’ But this is contradicted by the practice of the best
authors. See Littré, Dict., s. v. ‘Soi,’ Remarque; Haase, §13. Cf.
note to p. 19, l. 38.

L. 20. le flatte. This sense of F. flatter was adopted in English,
but has long been obsolete. Under the date 1599 there is a curious
instance of this use in the N. E. D.: ‘Trout is a fish that loveth to
be flattered and clawed in the water.’

L. 22. Ovid. Met. ii. 868.