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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herberto, post: 4285416, member: 74222&quot;]Hello once again. Thank you for the replies.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have now another problem with an English sentence. I understand the word for word, but i am not 100% sure about the meaning. The word &quot;yet&quot; is very unsual from my non-English tongue.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am reading &quot;Barbarians, Marauders, And Infidels&quot; by Antonio Santosuosso.</p><p><br /></p><p>He writes about Theodoric the Great that:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Theodoric never came to terms with the realization that the Italian population tolerated his rule yet considered the emperor at Constantinople their legitimate ruler.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Here the full text:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1090617[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>What does that mean exactly?</p><p><br /></p><p>a: That the Italian population accepted Theodoric, but they also accepted the emperor at Constantinople as their legitimate ruler, and that annoyed Theodoric.</p><p><br /></p><p>b. That the Italian population did NOT accept Theodoric, but they accepted the emperor at Constantinople as their legitimate ruler.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am very sure &quot;a&quot; is the correct answer, but I want to be 100% sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for any help you can provide.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think I will make another thread later, where I will explain why the Western Roman Empire fell based on academic sources.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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