140 n'occupe. _Pas_ is omitted after _si_ whenever the affirmative
idea is predominant. Tr.: "unless."

146 relever. See App. III.

149 tes peuples. Cf. l. 19, and N. to l. 56.

155 This interview is a departure from the Book of Esther, where
Mordecai, in accordance with Eastern custom, can do no more than "walk
before the court of the women's house" (ii. II).

s'ose avancer is an elegant order for _ose s'avancer_. The peculiarity
is that _oser_ is here used as though it were one of the two
auxiliaries _avoir and _être_, which alone must separate the oblique
conjunctives from their governing verb. Cf. ll. 231, 471. We shall
find several other such pseudo-auxiliaries.

156 père, figuratively, of course.

160 enfin must be variously translated. It can have the force of: 1.
"at length;" 2. "too," at the end of an enumeration; 3. "in short;" 4.
"still," or, "after all;" 5. "in the end."

164 c'est fait de . . . = _actum est de_. . . . See also App. V, ii.
D.

166 Devoir means 1. "to owe;" 2. "to have to," "must" expressing either
physical necessity (e.g., "You must be tired") or moral obligation; 3.
"to be [about] to;" e.g., "I am to be queen of the May."