I assume we're referring to Gibbon, right? The part about Empress Theodora wishing she had more accessible orifices so that she could have a greater number of simultaneous lovers was left in the original Greek, for example.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain) by Thomas Mann
- 16/11/2011 06:16:08 AM
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What do they talk about?
- 16/11/2011 06:35:23 PM
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They didn't translate the French for you?
- 16/11/2011 07:22:27 PM
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If I recall, my edition too did not translate that passage
- 17/11/2011 02:43:16 AM
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That is just bizarre.
- 17/11/2011 04:59:38 AM
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I can't recall if they did or not
- 17/11/2011 05:21:01 AM
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My copy is extremely old as well.
- 18/11/2011 01:56:20 PM
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Nope. Franklin Library leatherbound.
- 18/11/2011 06:13:49 PM
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Looks like it didn't translate everything...
- 18/11/2011 06:18:50 PM
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Ha!
- 18/11/2011 06:29:42 PM
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Or Greek...he left the really good stuff in Greek.
- 18/11/2011 07:22:08 PM
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I was thinking of the older Loeb Library translations, but Gibbon will work as well!
- 18/11/2011 10:35:46 PM
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