Part III

. Chap. II.: _From Augustus to Justinian_).--T]

[Footnote 529: RACINE, _Mithridate_, Act III. sc. i.:

Doutez-vous que l'Euxin ne me porte en deux jours Aux lieux où le Danube y vient finir son cours.

"Do you doubt that the Euxine will take me in two days To the spot where the Danube its last tribute pays."--T.

"We are told that, on hearing these verses from _Mithridate_, an old soldier, who had waged war in those countries, exclaimed aloud:

"'Yes, certainly, I doubt it.'

"He was quite right." (LA HARPE: _Cours de Littérature_, Part II . Book i . Chap. 3.)-B.]

[Footnote 530: CHATEAUBRIAND: _Martyrs_,