Scène I

27 6— Ecartés : Kept away. Écarter, to discard ; et (ex) and carte, card. Remark initial i in French»

initial s in Latin and in English in the following : état, status, state ; étole, stola, stole; éponge, spongia, sponge; épouse, sponsa, spouse, &c, &c

7&* PHÈDRE

Page 27 Une 18 — Pirithous : Pirithous, King of the Lapitba» in Thessaly, invaded Attica, but wheu Theseus came to oppose him, he conceived a warm admiration for him, and became his friend.

27 19— Le Cocyte : Cocytus, a river in Epirus, a tributary

of the Acheron, supposed to bê connected with the lower world.

28 18 — Depuis quel temps : Depuis combien de temps.

28 24 — Sa présence à ce bruit n'a point paru répondre :

His bearing did not seem at ail to justify that réputation.

29 I — Courage : Hère, pride.

29 14 — But à regret le sang des neveux d'Erechthée: Erechtheus was brother of Pallas, the fathex of Aricia and the Pallantidse. He was said to be son of the Earth, hence the point of the expression, à regret. — " Sons of the Earth," a mythical way of representing that the people so styled were indigenous, t.*., aborigines,

29 17, 18— On craint que,- &c. : Remark the antithesis

bet ween flamme, flame (love), and cendre, ashes. It may be translated : They fear lest some day the sister should with Hymen's torch rekindle her brothers' ashes.