German composition

Section 15 Extremes Meet⁠1

When Diogenes, during the famous festival⁠2 at Olympia⁠3, saw⁠4 some young men of Rhodes arrayed⁠5 most magnificently, he (App. § 15) exclaimed smiling: “This is pride!” And when, afterwards⁠3, he met⁠6 with some Lacedæmonians in a mean⁠7 and sordid⁠8 dress, he said: “And this is also pride!”—Rev. R. K. Arvine.

Notes

1 Die Extreme berühren sich.

2 the festival at Olympia, die Olympischen Feste. Diese berühmten Feste, auch Olympische Spiele genannt, wurden in jedem fünften Jahre am ersten Vollmond nach der Sonnenwende (Anfang Juli) bei Olympia zu Ehren des Zeus gefeiert. Sie dauerten fünf Tage und bestanden in Wettrennen (zu Wagen, zu Pferd und zu Fuß) und in gymnastischen Spielen aller Art.

[3] Contrary to English practice, the comma is, as a rule, not used in German to enclose adverbs or adverbial clauses of time, manner, and place.

4 ‘to see’, here erblicken, which place after ‘Rhodes’; young men = youths; ‘of’, here aus; Rhodes, Rhodus.

5 ‘arrayed — magnificently’. Turn these words into a relative clause, and say: ‘which were most magnificently (aufs prächtigste) arrayed (schmücken)’, according to the rule given in S. 7, N. 3, B.

6 to meet with a person, einem begegnen. Place the subject immediately after ‘when’. The Lacedæmonian, der Lazedämonier.

7 armselig.

8 zerlumpt.