Section 15. EXTREMES MEET[1].
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Section 15. EXTREMES MEET[1].
When Diogenes, during the famous festival[2] at Olympia[3], saw[4] some young men of Rhodes arrayed[5] most magnificently, he (App. § 15) exclaimed smiling: “This is pride!” And when, afterwards[3], he met[6] with some Lacedæmonians in a mean[7] and sordid[8] dress, he said: “And this is also pride!”—Rev. R. K. Arvine.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · Die Extreme berühren sich.Note 2 · the festival at Olympia, die Olympischen Feste. Diese berühmten Feste, auch Olympische Spiele genannt, wurden in jedem fünften Jahre am erstNote 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 placeNote 4 · ‘to see’, here erblicken, which place after ‘Rhodes’; young men = youths; ‘of’, here aus; Rhodes, Rhodus.Note 5 · ‘arrayed — magnificently’. Turn these words into a relative clause, and say: ‘which were most magnificently (aufs prächtigste) arrayed (schmNote 6 · to meet with a person, einem begegnen. Place the subject immediately after ‘when’. The Lacedæmonian, der Lazedämonier.Note 7 · armselig.Note 8 · zerlumpt.