Note 529 — BOOK III[496]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
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.