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What is the translation of this quote by Plato?
This is a horribly garbled transcription of one of Plato's epigrams. Based on the strange images in the text and the nonsensical substitution of τ for ι (for instance), it seems likely that this was ...
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Uppercase “God” in translations of Greek plays
I've just pulled out my copy of Sophocles' Theban Plays, translated by E. F Watling, Penguin Classics. I'll paraphrase his notes on names of deities.
"God": the "great invisible source ...
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Uppercase “God” in translations of Greek plays
There are two things going on here.
One, sometimes the translators are being liberal with their translations, such as your first example.
οἱ δὲ σὺν γήρᾳ βαρεῖς,
ἱερῆς, ἐγὼ μὲν Ζηνός
As you can see, ...
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