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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt:...sacred lie will keep them from... Thoas may Ix.' supposed to speak with special reference to Helen, wife of Menelaus, who deserted her husband and thus occasioned the Trojan war. 1. 472.... bte rafefye (Shit, the qui(k emotion, or ardor. 1. 474. Ier ilberrebung golbne §unge los. The P. V. reads: mit taufenb golbnen 3ungen bte ilberrebung anf fte Io«. The adjective goibell is often used by Goethe in the general sense of something very excellent. Cf. the Greek xpiococ, golben, which has the same general use with the poets of Greece. Page 22.--lines 479-80. Docb follt icb's... ging? In prose this would be: iJod) hatte id) tie« and) erroarteu foBen. But Iought to have expected it, too. Did I not know tlial I was going to deal with a woman? The infinitive hanbeln without t l after ging is unusual but is quite classical. 1. 483. In the P. V. this line is, Xa'j roa8 bu an mir tabelft, ftnb alle unfere SJaffen. 1. 489. Drittgft bu in micb, you urge on me.... 1. 496.... iiberbrauft, lit. outroars, translate: drowns... cf. 11. 13-14, ber ©turine, in P. V. ber Sturm ber l'eibenfd)aft. Page 23.--line 497.... roorjl, = Isu/pose, expressing irony. 1. 500. Jin 3c)ms CEifd;. Note the growing bitterness of the king. The refers, of course, to her ancestor, Tantalus. 11. 501-02. So bHfj' icb, Thus I atone for = Thus you make me suffer. P. V. 3d) trage mm bie ©d)ulb bc8 SBertrauen? j11 bir. 1. 503. 3j bin etn ItTenfcb. I am human, hence, liable to give way to anger. 1. 510. tff, has been. The present tense is required when the statement includes the moment when it is made. Cf. 3d) fenne ibn (fd)ott) filtlf 3of)cC, I have known him these Jive years. 1. 511. In the P. V. bi«f)er occurs after mid). 1. 516. Die Stnnctt, for bie Sinue, the senses. The...