L. 7. _Qui n'a pas dû rester_..., 'who surely has not been spared by
death that she might see her own son die.'
Ll. 8, 9. _Assoupis, assoupis..._ Frequent repetitions occur throughout
this piece, all with a most natural and pathetic effect. M. Dezeimeris
that Chénier took the hint from Prodromus, in whose poem, however, the
repetitions, for the most part irrelevant, are mere mannerism.