Saturday, March 21, 2009

Traduttore Traditore

Quite the funny quote:

Translators have long been an undervalued race: one of them remarked bitterly
that with the exception of the wages of sin the wages of translation are the worst in the whole market.



E. R. Dodds, Missing Persons: An Autobiography (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1977), 174.

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