The gentle reecection that Thomas Corneille proposes of the death of Stilicon, a general of Armee Romaine, from the recesses of Orose and Zosime, is reappearing at several levels: the reecection of a subject, since the author evolves the characters according to the gentle glove and confines a love intrigue or dominates ‘respectful adoration’, such as the definition A. Genetiot, and dominated by secrecy, through a letter-enigma, a tragic version of the small, gentle texts or the spirit resonated. But it seems above all that Thomas Corneille is granting dramatic and dramatic construction to the gentlemen: violent action goes through the encroachment, making it possible not to ‘raise’ the public’s delicatess and the construction of the piece, developed in the form of an enigma in which the audience is an accomplice to the conspirator, and the issue is to wonder when and how Emperor Honorius will take the guilty, stifling the fineness of mind. The throwing spirit in this tragedie was less due to the actions presented than to the pleasure of eMotion and ingeniosite.