"Retranslate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that they might be the sooner paid for them. We may safely affirm, therefore, that in the graces and elegances of execution, the Greek poets have always lost in the Latin imitations. These we must, in imagination, retranslate into the finished elegance which we perceive in the Greek fragments. Moreover, Plautus and Terence made many changes in the general plan, and these could hardly be improvements. The former at times omitted whole ...
— Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel
... you propose doing in November?—Well, I think I shall retranslate the works of HOMER, and write an exhaustive article in the Encylopaedia Britannica (new edition) on ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, November 12, 1892 • Various |
