PART III

EXERCISES IN TRANSLATING IDIOMATIC ENGLISH

NOTES 1 ON  THE BALKAN 2 WAR

EXERCISE  1

The entire Balkan peninsula,^ as that part of Europe is called
which begins ^ at the Danube River and faces the southeast,^ is
divided ^ among six nations, Greeks, Servians, Bulgarians,
Roumanians, Montenegrins, and Turks.^ Of these, the Servians,
Bulgarians, and Montenegrins are of Slavonic^ stock. Their
allies, the Greeks, though of far different stock, yet made common
cause with them^ against the Turks. Greece, indeed, can hardly
be said to form ^^ a part of the Balkan peninsula; still, because
the Greeks joined with the Balkan nations and because it is
situated in the country bounded by a line ^^ drawn ^^ from the
Black Sea ^^ to the Adriatic ^^ following-the-direction-of ^^ the
Balkan chain,^^ it may be included in ^^ the same name as the
others. The origin ^^ and history ^^ of the Greeks are well
known, so that this subject need not be here treated.^^

I. Cf. the title Caesar gave to his work. 2. Balkanus, -a, -um : except
where the classic name of a place has given rise to its modern name, terms
thus coined will be used. The ancient name of the Balkan chain, Haemus,
does not even suggest the modern term. 3. paeninsula, -ae, /. 4. Cf.
Caes. B. G., I, I. 5. * south' = meridies, -ei,/.; to form * southeast,'
remember how Caesar forms 'northeast.' 6. distribuo, w. dat. ind. obj.
7. Graeci, Serbi, Bulgarii, Rumani, Nigromontani, Turei. 8. Sclavenicus,
-a, -um. 9. In all such instances form a phrase expressing the facts: here,
e.g., 'joined themselves in common plan.'    10. 'to be.'    11. Hnea,-ae,/.

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