Scène I

oî 11 — Totft prêt à tomber : Ready to burst. Tomber

sonnds rather weak hère, particularly as the ordinary expressioa is "l'orage éclate," and as we say, " la pluie tombe."

62 21 — Mon père en me sauvant ordonne que j^expire :

Iphigenia explains her meaning further on ; her father wishes to save her life, but he'has commanded her to hâte Achilles and never to speak to him, which, to her, is as bad as death itself.

SCENB II.

68 21— Secondez : Help. N. in second, and its dériva-

tives, seconder ^ secondement, &c., the e is pronouneed like a g.

58 25 — A déjà vu vos larmes : Has already seen youi

tears (and has not been moved by them).

63 27 — Au coup : "We say generally, " mettre son espoir

dans," or, '•«« quelque chose.^' H 1 — Pour trancher d'inutiles discours : To eut short

useless speeches. Trancher generally means to slice, to eut; but it is also used in the sensé of retraneker, to eut off. Note also, pour trancher le mot, 1o be plain j le trancher net, to speak c^andidly.