1075 son fils, Cambyses (reigned 529-522 B.C.).
1077 vous, on the assumption that Ahasuerus is Darius (reigned 521-485 B.C.).
1082 en. See App. V, ii. C.
1086 La Thrace, near enough to Macedonia for the queen's oratorical purposes. Thracia (now N. E. Roumelia), like Scythia (l. 1096), was then a remote and almost unknown region, whose inhabitants were all "barbarians."
1096 sqq. Esther is supremely skillful in laying to the king's credit all that can flatter his pride, and charging all she complains of against this Scythe impitoyable: a name all the more hateful to the king as Darius had led an army against the Scythians and lost it (513 B.C.), although Esther puts the expedition in a more flattering light in l. 1116.
1104 Que. See App. IV, i. A.
1123 Saul, first king of the Israelites, was the son of Kish, a Benjamite (I Sam. ix. 1-2), and Mordecai is also stated (Book of Esther ii. 5) to be the son of Kish, a Benjamite.
1127 Impossible to anticipate more skillfully the retort that Mordecai should have honored the king's favorite.
1135 convert de votre pourpre makes the offence almost personal to the king.
1136 For jour, see l. 1039, N.