Hunchback of Notre Dame (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (79 page)

A man and a woman alone together do not think about paternosters (Latin); the Lord’s Prayer is also known as the Pater Noster (Our Father).

Expressions such as “how” and “verily” (Latin).

Truly these cookshops are wonderful places! (Spanish).

I breathe; I hope (Latin).

Whence thence? (Latin). Man is a monster to men (Latin). The stars, a fortress, the name, a wonder (Latin). A great book, great evil (Greek). Dare to be wise (Latin). [The spirit] blows where it wants (Latin).

Account the Lord of heaven thy ruler upon earth (Latin).

They tore the robe (Latin).

It is in Greek, it is not read (Latin).

The surnames signify Pierre as “the Slaughterer” and Baptiste as “the Rook.”

He who will not work shall not eat (Latin).

Against goads, hot blades, torture, shackles, / straps, chains, dungeons, iron collars (Latin).

Bound naked, you weigh a hundred pounds when you are hung up by the feet (Latin).

A witch or ghost! (Latin).

Dialogues upon the Powers and Works of Demons
(Latin); written by Byzantine political figure and scholar Michel Psellus (1018-1078).

There is no place without its genius (Latin).

By preserving it under a special form the soul is saved (Latin).

He is unworthy who dwelleth among evil words (Latin).

Concerning Regular and Irregular Figures
(Latin).

Therefore, Gentlemen, the witchcraft being proved and the crime made manifest, as likewise the criminal intention, in the name of the holy church of Notre-Dame de Paris, which is seized of the right of all manner of justice high and low, within this inviolate island of the city, we declare by the tenor of these presents that we require, firstly, a pecuniary compensation; secondly, penance before the great portal of the cathedral church of Notre-Dame; thirdly, a sentence, by the virtue of which this witch, with her goat, shall either in the public square, commonly called the Place de Grève, or in the island stretching out into the Seine, adjacent to the royal gardens, be executed! (Latin).

Oh, the monk’s Latin! (Latin).

Term signifying “I say no!”

Abandon all hope (Italian); this is the inscription on the doors to Hell in
The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321).

Prison-tomb in which the prisoner is shut up for life.

I shall not fear though thousands compass me about; arise, Lord, and save me! Save me, O Lord, for the waters have overwhelmed my very soul. I am caught in deep mire, and my goods are gone from me (Latin).

Whoso heareth my words, and believeth in Him that sent me, He shall have everlasting life, and does not come to judgment, but passes from death to life (Latin).

I called from the deep and Thou heardest my voice.

Thou did plunge me into the deep, in the heart of the sea, and the floods surrounded me (Latin).

Go, wavering soul! And may God be merciful unto thee! (Latin).

All thy whirlpools, O Lord, and all Thy waves, have gone over me! (Latin).

Because to the monks of Saint-Germain this meadow was a hydra ever raising its head anew in the brawls of the clerks (Latin).

Fortunate old man! (Latin).

The Stone Cup
(Latin); Baudry-le-Rouge and
The Stone Cup
are fictional.

Food, drink, sleep, love—all in moderation (Latin).

The ravings of the people, popular fury! (Latin).

What canticles! What instruments! What songs! What melodies are eternally sung here! The instruments of hymns, the soft melody of angels, the admirable canticles of canticles resonate softly, like honey (Latin).

It is not given to everyone to have a nose (Latin).

Wine is a thing of luxury, drunkenness of tumult (Latin).

To abstain from wine also makes men wise! (Latin).

The dagger in the pocket (thieves’ slang).

A play on words, as
l‘assommeur
means “he who knocks down.”

Armed with ten spurs (Greek).

No footman, no butler (Latin).

Pulse rapid, full, intermittent, irregular (Latin).

Epithet meaning “the wicked one.”

He oppressed the people of Turin and was oppressed by them (Latin).

As the bees do geometry (Latin).

Against Avarice
(Latin); this satirical work was written in the fourth century by Salvien of Cologne, a priest.

The beautiful creature clad in white (Italian). In the second section, entitled “Purgatory,” of Dante’s
Divine Comedy,
the angel of humility, described this way, serves as one of the poet’s guides.

The wheel turns, why does a jug come out? (Latin).

General who protected the Château de Vincennes both at the end of the First Empire (1814-1815) and during the uprising of 1830.