tour à tour, mutually

331. pris shows that Ilion is masculine hère. Grammars usually give it as féminine.

336. Sacré», because built by ApoUo and Poséidon, sacré usually précèdes its noun in Racine.

336-340. Seneca, Troas^ 468-475, makes Andromache say ; " Will the time ever corne when, conqueror and restorer of thy country, thou shalt rebuild and re-establish Pergama. . . . But I consider my destiny. Thèse ambitions hopes frighten me. To live suffices for the conquered. Alas, what place wUl seem secure to my f ears ? "Where hide thee ? " Cp. also for 336, Eneid, ii. 291-292 : " If a human arm could hâve defended Pergama, mine would hâve defended it."

543» gênez, torture^ as usual in Racine. Cp. 1347.