s'il, i. e., even if Pyrrhus

993. privé. Cp. 930, but note that Hector had a solemn funeral at last. Iliad, xxiv. 782-804.

994. sans honneur, dishonorably. Racine often forms adverbs in this way. For the Une, cp. 930, note.

996. Eneidy ii. 501, 502 : ** Priam on the altar, reddening with his blood the ashes of his own sacrifices." Andromache was présent at the tragic spectacle as appears from Eneid, ii. 515-518. Cp. 1333-1336.

999-1002. Eneid,, ii. 469-482, 491, 499, and 526-532, taken together, make Pyrrhus the greatest brute known to Virgil. frères (looi)^ Hector*s brothers.

1002. échauffant, urging on,

loii. ressentiments, m^m^^j, not ** f eelings.** aaaerna, sacrtyïcéd,

1015. j'irai voir . . . encor, lam also to see.

10 18. que, w/ien, i. e., for oà. Cp. 463. Note the inversion in de« manda, modified by le jour.

1020- 1026. Thèse Unes were suggested by Iliad^ vi. 466-493.

1022. succès. Cp. 647.

1028. aïeux, race, hère.

1029. ctimtj fault in your eyes. Pentraîne, involve in his death. 1032. Note the Euphuism of complaining to eyes rather than eais. Ï033» 1034» No rhetorical pause séparâtes thèse Unes. Cp. 121 1,

1531, and Introduction, page xx.

1035. l'en» ^ (i* ^'ifi^i 1034) from it{ï, e., head of Astyanax). y^ta it (frr, 1034).

1039. de mon fils Pamour, my maternai love. Racine of ten uses de with a substantive for an adjective.

1041. L'amour, hère, despised love^ "pique."

1043. ^Oi, troth, promise of marriage. Cp. 1075, 11 28, 1138. In the very next Une she wavers, saying she has no troth to pUght for she is pledged to Hector still.

1046. This Une was suggested by Euripides, Andromache, ^i^-^\^z " O, my son, if thou escape death remember thy mother, what I suffered and how I died." The close of this scène as a whole is to be compared with ComeiUe, Cinna, III. v.