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I was thinking of the older Loeb Library translations, but Gibbon will work as well! Larry Send a noteboard - 18/11/2011 10:35:46 PM
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.


I seem to recall quite a few Greek sections in volume IV.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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What do they talk about? - 16/11/2011 06:35:23 PM 461 Views
They didn't translate the French for you? - 16/11/2011 07:22:27 PM 519 Views
If I recall, my edition too did not translate that passage - 17/11/2011 02:43:16 AM 507 Views
That is just bizarre. - 17/11/2011 04:59:38 AM 461 Views
I can't recall if they did or not - 17/11/2011 05:21:01 AM 621 Views
My copy is extremely old as well. - 18/11/2011 01:56:20 PM 545 Views
Nope. Franklin Library leatherbound. - 18/11/2011 06:13:49 PM 593 Views
Looks like it didn't translate everything... - 18/11/2011 06:18:50 PM 509 Views
Ha! - 18/11/2011 06:29:42 PM 532 Views
Or Greek...he left the really good stuff in Greek. - 18/11/2011 07:22:08 PM 524 Views
I was thinking of the older Loeb Library translations, but Gibbon will work as well! - 18/11/2011 10:35:46 PM 527 Views
The "mystery" is partly explained in the French edition I have - 18/11/2011 11:30:33 PM 576 Views

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