ACT IV. SCENE I

1050. The resuit of Andromache*s reflectionsat Hector'stomb (1048), appears in the "innocent stratagem" (1097), that she explains (1077- 1 100). miracle, marvel, not " miracle."

1052. Il, i. e., Hector.

1055. Croyez-en ses transports. Trust his levé for that, î. e., for re- Btoring Astyanax to her. By marrying Andromache Pyrrhus beUea

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his father (père), risks his throne (sceptre), and estranges the Greeks (aUiés).

1057. sur, for modem de,

Ï059- plein. For the construction, cp. 183.

1061. This is Racine's interprétation of Virgil's incautum, EnetJ, v. 332, and is essential to the catastrophe as we see from 12 18, 1453, ^uid

1065. qui, wkat, not "who," as often in Racine.

1066. That is : You may now see Astyanax when you will, not as formerly (241), once a day ; therefore there is no haste.

1069. craitre, for croître. The change is for the eye-rhyme, like that noted in 688. The sound of ai and oi was in Racine's day identical in thèse words.

1071. renaître, because had Astyanax died, their memory w'ould hâve perished. Cp. 1028, and Euripides, Trojan Women, 707-713.

1075. foi, trustworthtness, hère. Cp. 1043, ^^28 and 1138.

1076. That is ; I thought that, as I had corne to know you, so you, in your tum, had co.ne to know me better than to suppose that I could really be false to the memory of Hector.

1078. Cp. 1024.

1079. réveillant. Fortheconstruction, cp. 183. Andromache means that her marriage would grieve the shades of ail those Trojans slain by Pyrrhus.

1081. Eneid^ iv. 552 : *^ The «troth plighted to the ashes of Sicheus has not been kept."

1083. en, of htm, or his. Cp. 252.

1084. reposer. For the construction, cp. 30.

1085. quel, wkat manner ofman. Cp. 155.

1087. encor, besides, or also.

1095. doi. Cp. 688.

II 00. à toi de, for modem à toi à, sls e. g. in 11 76. 1105. dépositaire, guardian^ and thus necessary to the préservation of the Trojan royal Une. Cp. 1028 and 1071.

1 109. That is : Make him appreciate my sacrifice in this marriage.

11 10. lui, i. e., Pyrrhus, engagée, attached. II 12. laissant. For the constmctlon, cp. 381.

II 16. That is : Let their deeds praise them rather than your words. II 20. ménager, respect^ hère.

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II2I. Seneca, Troas, 742-744, makes Andromache say: ''Should his f ather fill him with pride ? But Hector hiniself, dragged around Troy, would hâve laid aside pride, for great woes break it." Cp. also Troas, 713 : " Forget your royal ancestry. Act the captive."

II 28. commis, confided, as often in Racine, foi, as in 1075.