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30 19 — Avant que de partir : Littré tells us that one can

say equally well avant de faire and avant que de faire, and that avant que faire is used in poetry. 30 25 — La parque homicide : The doom of death.

30 31 — J'ai plaint : Plaindre is used hère in the sensé of

regritter. Plaindre les malheureux, to pity the unfortunate ; plaindre sa peine, la dépense, to gradue the trouble, the expense.

31 21 — D.e ce fameux mortel que la terre a conçu s

Erechtheus. . See page 29, line 14.

31 32 — Est votre bien : Is your own. Bien, property ;

biens au soleil, landed property.

32 7 — Vous trahir : To act against your own interest. 32 26 — Insulter à : To déride, to scoff at.

3e 30— Par quel trouble ... : What feeling has carried me so far from my former self» ».*., has so aitered me. Note. — Do not give yourself the trouble, ne vous donnez pas cette peine ; he has had great troubles, U a eu de grands ennuis, de grands chagrins.

Page 33 Une 10— À l'envi : The idea might be expressed hère by f everytbing conspires to. Etym, — Littré condemns itwicem, and gives, like Brachet, invitus.

SCBNS V.

35 4— Jlles alarmes: My anxiety, alarm. Alarum and

alarme hâve a common Italian origin: ail* arme, to arms.

55 13 — Des sentiments : Remark des hère, after the négative, although the gênerai rule is to suppress the article. In this case the idea of the négative is connected, not with sentiments, but with bas ; he has feelings, but they are not low.

35 14— Quand : Even if. Quand même, quand bien même.

35 18 — Aux bords : Used hère, like rivage on page 23 Une

12, simply for pays,

36 3 — Auroit pour moi pris les mêmes ombrages : Would

hâve been equally jealous of me.

36 23— Tout mort qu'il est : Although he is dead. Re-

mark the indicative with tout . . . que ; the subjunctive would be necessary with bien . . . que, quoique.

37 2 5 — Q ue Thésée est mon père : Generally when the

principal clause is interrogative, the verb of the subordinate clause must be in the subjunctive, because there is doubt, uncertainty ; but when, in spite of the interrogation, tbere is no doubt inferred, the indicative is used. Hippolytus hère wishes to bring Phsedra back to a sensé of her duty by warning her that she is forgètting, &c. ... In the next line the indi- -»' cative can be explained in a similar way.

. Pbaedra répudiâtes the accusation. Girault- Duvivier calls this interrogation " l'interrogation des rhéteurs."