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1. „Lieber Gott!“ a popular address of the Deity; cf. page 40, note 4.

2. solche or (with the indef. article) eine solche . . . or solch eine . . .

3. suche nur (adverb. idiom), with an imperative persuasively, just go in quest (or in search of it)! do search for it!

4. that (did), here: acted or appeared or proceeded.

5. ihnen (privative dative). How to render? Cf. page 29, note 1.

6. nicht einma´l (indef.), not even.

7. den Flüssen nach, in the sense of “in the direction of” the preposition nach follows its case, here: up the rivers.

8. Olto, Gin, Buzlu, Sereth, and Argesch (eight lines below), the names of a few of the numerous rivers which, rising on the southern slope of the Carpathian Mountains, traverse the Roumanian plain and join the Lower Danube on the left.