ACT V. SCENE I

1398. douleur, au moins étudiée, even a feigned regret, 1 399-1402, Cp. Eneidy iv. 569, 570 : " Did he sigh at my tears ? Did he avert his eyes ? Had he any pity, overcome by my love ? "

1400. tXLy front htm, Cp. 252.

1401, à, for modem en face de,

1402. part à, part in^ or concern witk, not ** sympathy for."

1403, 1404. That is : In spite of ail I shrink from executing my yengeance, while to crown my misery I find that I still love him.

1405. seul, mère, penser loi pensée occasionally in poetry.

1408. Aussi bien, équivalent to " In any event."

14 10. dissiper, dissolve,. For the omitted reflexive, cp. 1219.

141 2. That is : I shall ward off my own blows.

1414. Hais plutôt. But no!

141 6. on for /. It adds force to his contemptaous indifférence to Hermione. Cp. 948.

141 7. embarras funeste, dreadful alternative i. e., between wishing (and obtaining) lif e or death for Pyrrhus.

1418. encore un coup. Cp. 11 58.

1419. le, i. e., that I would seek vengeance and that Orestes would aid me in it.

1424. redire. Cp. 464-470 and 851-854.

1425. The statement is an invention of Racine.

1428. si loin, j^^fv such a distance, Peculiar use.

1429. devant, for modem avant,