That is : Whatever portion of my life I consider

776. That is : Ail my expérience of life convicts the gods of injustice. Claudian speaks also of " guilty men in the glory of long prosperlty and the good persecuted." In 777, 778 there is a blasphemy of satanic desperation.

781-784. Thèse Unes are imitated by Hugo in Marion Delorme (III. vi. 61-69), and in Hernani (III. iv. 45-48, 79-80, 95-103). They were themselves suggested by Euripides, Iphigenia^ 695, and Orestes^ 1068-