by Douglas Fróes There is a story, told by Marcus Tullius Cicero, that Simonides of Ceos was attending a dinner at the house of a nobleman named Scopas. After reciting his poem, the story goes that Simonides received a message asking him to go outside to meet someone. When he got there, he couldn’t find […]
Errors? Not quite…
By Radoslav Genchev Very often translators here and everywhere else are faced with presumably incorrect or erroneous translations, but this is not always the case. There are many factors to be taken into account. In translation, there are multiple errors that on second thought, do not appear as such. Here are some examples from translating […]