le jour. Modem usage prefers par Jour

264. d', i. e., "from the beginning of." Say : since yesterday. Note that this opening Une gives the key-note to her whole rôle. 276. intérêt, affection for him. Cp. 195 and 870,

278. The suppressed condition " if he lived " explains the irregrolar séquence of tenses. For similar use of the subjunctive for the future or conditionalf cp. 403 and 987.

279. Uiad, vi. 429, makes Andromache say to Hector : ** You are to me now father and loving mother ; you alone to me brother and blooming husband."

280. Achilles had killed Andromache*s father, Aëtion (Iliad, vi. 414) and her husband, Hector (Iliad, xxii) ; Pyrrhus had killed her fatherin-law, Priam (Eneid, ii. 553).