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Updated: May 15, 2025
He was no tyro, merely out of practice, and unacquainted with the later, simpler form of the great master of the French school, by which, at serious issues, the guarding of the line can be more quickly done: as, for instance, the 'parade de septime' supplanting the slower 'parade de prime; the 'parade de quarte' having advantage over the 'parade de quince; the 'parade de tierce' being readier and stronger than the 'parade de sixte; the same said for the 'parade de seconde' instead of the weak 'parade d'octave.
In two minutes I had his whole budget of the art laid bare to me; he had but four parries quarte and tierce for the high lines, with septime and second for the low ones and had never seen a counter-parry or lunge in the whole course of his misspent life. "Little hero!" thought I, "thou art a spitted cockerel already, and yet hope, the blind, the ignorant, has no suspicion of it!"
He was no tyro, merely out of practice, and unacquainted with the later, simpler form of the great master of the French school, by which, at serious issues, the guarding of the line can be more quickly done: as, for instance, the 'parade de septime' supplanting the slower 'parade de prime; the 'parade de quarte' having advantage over the 'parade de quince; the 'parade de tierce' being readier and stronger than the 'parade de sixte; the same said for the 'parade de seconde' instead of the weak 'parade d'octave.
Toutain again calls attention to the patronage accorded to all these cults by the Roman Emperors, as favoring a new combination and synthesis: "Hadrien, Commode, Septime Severe, Julia Domna, Elagabal, Alexandre Severe, en particulier ont contribue personnellement a la popularite et au succes des cultes qui se celebraient en l'honneur de Serapis et d'Isis, des divinites syriennes et de Mithra."
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