Hermanarich, the king of
the Ostrogoths (Eastern Goths), who in the year 375 A.D. succumbed to
the Huns.
3. The noun ~der Mann~ has a double plural: ~die Maenner~, _men_, and
~+die Mannen+~, _vassals, warriors_.
4. ~jeder +nehme!+~ (subj. for missing 3rd pers. sing. of the
imperative), _let every one take!_
5. ~+sie+~ (with emphasis), _they themselves_ (i.e. the Roumanians).
6. ~+herunter konnte+~. Idiom? Cf. page 5, note 6.
+Page 43.+--1. ~+es+~ (indef.) ~konnte keine . . . geben~, _there_ could
be no . . .
2. ~+den+~ (with emphasis) = ~diesen, den letztern~, _this, the latter_.
3. ~+wenn+ . . . +auch+~, _even if, no matter whether_.
4. ~+der Bucium+~ (Roumanian, pronounce ~Butschum~, from Graeco-Latin:
{bous}; _bos_). Comp. Latin: "+bucina+" or "+buccina+", the name of the
instrument by which in the military camps of the ancient Romans the
signals were sounded. Transl. _herdman's horn_.
+Page 44.+--1. ~+ihrer+~ (partitive genitive), _of them_, dependent on
~genug~.
2. ~so viele Steine, als sie +nur+~ (adverb. idiom), cf. page 39,
note 5.
3. ~+machte das Zeichen des Kreuzes+~, as Catholics do in devotion.
4. ~+was+ . . . +nur+~, _whatever, however much_.
+Page 45.+--1. ~+gegen+~ (+against+), here: _in comparison with,
compared with_.
2. ~+gesche'he+~ (optative subj., expressing "concession"), _may
happen_; _may be done_.
3. ~+ohne dass+ . . . merkten~. The preposition ~ohne~ cannot govern the
infinitive ~mit zu~ (see page 12, note 4), when there is a change of
subject, but must then be followed by a clause beginning with ~dass~.
+Page 46.+--1. ~+sich+~ (dat. pl. of reflex. pronoun), for possess.
pronoun ~+ihren+ Weg~, cf. page 1, note 8.
2. ~+sie+~, refers to ~Laender~.
3. As with the preposition ~ohne~ (cf. page 12, note 4), the infinitive
with ~zu~ is used with the preposition ~+anstatt+~ (or ~statt~) when the
subject of the infinitive is the same as that of the leading verb. It
corresponds to English _instead of_ with the verb-noun in _-ing_.
4. ~+wieder zu sich kommen+~ (phrase), cf. page 7, note 2.
+Page 47.+--1. ~+was+~ (= ~das, was~, correlative), indef. neuter sing.
for masc. and fem. pl. ~+die+, +welche+~.
2. ~+es+~ (neuter). Note agreement with grammatical gender of
~Menschenkind~.
3. ~+Hungers+ sterben~ (idiomat. phrase formed with adverb. genit. of
manner), _to die of hunger, to starve to death_.
4. ~er liess +sich+ sehen~. How to be rendered? Com
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