Translation key for Latin, book two.

Translation par Renee Lafont.

Nor need those rules to give translation light: His own example is a flame so bright, That he who but arrives to copy well Unguided will advance, unknowing will excel.

His plays formed the commencement of Roman translation-literature, and naturalized the Greek metres in Latium, even though they were curiosities rather than works of art.

I remember once at Oxford," he said, smiling, "that Collins, one of our lecturers, had been going through a translation-paper with me, and had told me three quite distinct ways of rendering a sentence, each backed by a great scholar.

Ferdinand Smith's translation savours somewhat of the Hibernian, viz., "She still loves him who has murdered her.

To what perfection will our tongue arrive, How will invention and translation thrive, When authors nobly born will bear their part, And not disdain the inglorious praise of art!

Molina gives melchiquiuh petlauhqui, with the translation despechugado.

[Footnote 20: I use Dr. Legge's translation verbatim.]

At the present moment they menace our friend Wolf, who certainly is no kitten, with ignominious execution, because he also dared to land on the translation island which they have received from Father Neptune in private fief, and to bring with him a readable Aristophanes.