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3. 3. den Altesten, aldermen, a title of honour given to magi-
4.
7.
12.
16.
2 .
24.
25.
strates in Prussia.
im weißen Saal: a large hall in the RCFal Palace, con-
taining statues of tlhe twelre Electors (Kurfürsten) okt
Brandenburg.
war doch . bewußt: Weisse (Cerzaz Cranzb) con-
siders this a dependent clause with a conjunction omitted
(ef. wäre ich da gewesen if I had veen there’); hence
the position of the verb. Translate it eitber. for surely
every one was aware Or was noet every one aware?' For
similar construction see—
hallten diese Worte doch im ganzen Land wieder
(p. ro l. 24).
war es doch keine Kleinigkeit gewesen (p. 33 1. 25).
galt es doch . (p. 40 I. 30).
war ihm doch nur zu gut bekannt (p. ös 1. 23).
war es doch weltbekannt (p. 68 1 18).
verrät, betrays, is à good example of one of the forces of
ver- in Ccomposition, viz. zer##ers#zoz; raten (OE. rede) ’to
advise'“; verraten to adrise wrongly betray’; similarly
leiten to lead’; verleiten to mislead’; führen and ver-
führen etc. Notice also that he advises'= er rät (not rätet),
and the similar forms, er birst, er brät, er sicht, er flicht,
er gilt, er hält, er schilt, er tritt, in which the final t of
the zrd sing. pres. is Contracted with the t of the stem.
einmal, for once just, usuallyproncunced with the
accent on the second syllable. Cf. p. 151. 8 reite einmal
zurück! p. 171. zo noch einmal.
glänzend: pres. part. used adverbially, as reizend schön
scharmingly beautiful“: auffallend ähnlich strikingl
like and (past part.) entschieden besser decidedly better.“
ja gives an explanation of a previous statement without fear
#f Contradiction and can be rendered b Frou must allow'
ou surelyr know Fou see’#0f course. In this passage to
explain the prevailing melancholr, it is stated as an un-
deniable fact that all the people kne etc.“
Ct. p. 4 1. 244 Delbrück war ja sein Lehrer.
And other egxamples, p. 19 I. 12 nay’), p. 31 Il. 6, p. 48
1. 25, p. 57 1. 25.
geschlagen war: this implies a state not an action, the
result and not the dealing of the wound.
Cf. p. 3 U. 17. 20 getäuscht wurde and erwidert wurden which
are imperf. of the true passive, and imply an action and nor
