This story is told also of Hannibal's infancy

80. rLé%\i%é, postponedy but he really complains of the postponemenL This Latinism is quite common in Racine. Cp. 1191.

t. 86-138.] NOTES 97

86. This tianslates Eneid, iv. 23 : "I recognize the traces of the old flame." Corneille bas the same sentiment (Sertorius, 263-264). Cp. Gray, Elegy : " Still in our ashes live their wonted fires."

89. Note the change in tense. brigue le suffrage, solicit the chaice,

93, 94. That is, The ardor of my love is such that I shall rejoice to fail in my mission, for then I can rescue from Epirus the insulted and deserted Hermione. This explains the attitude of Orestes in Scène II.

98. Note the fatalism hère as in 482, 640, 1200, 1299, and cp. Introduction, page xiv.

107. sa conquête, i. e., Hermione's love for Pyrrhus, que, as thaugh,