Translation examples
Quinquesols maintenant, aut decem postea." But the translation did not follow immediately in his ear;
Quinquesols maintenant, aut decem postea.« Aber die Übersetzung folgte nicht sofort;
Leave nothing for them to fiddle with save caelum aut caenum—sky and scum!
Laßt ihnen nichts übrig, das sie benutzen könnten, außer caelum aut caenum — Himmel und Dreck!
249 “Since the movements of the atoms”: “Ut sunt diuersi atomorum motus non incredibile est sic conuenisse olim atomos aut conuenturas ut alius nascatur montanus.”—Ibid., p. 11. I have altered Screech’s translation: “Since the movements of the atoms are so varied, it is not unbelievable that the atoms once came together, or will together again in the future, so that another Montaigne be born.”
11: »Ut sunt diuersi atomorum motus non incredibile est sic conuenisse olim atomos aut conuenturas ut alius nascatur montanus.« Greenblatt hat Screechs Übersetzung geändert, bei dem es heißt: »Since the movements of the atoms are so varied, it is not unbelievable that the atoms once came together, or will together again in the future, so that another Montaigne be born.«
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