Dialogue

 1 Charm|       the Dialogues of Plato in English, I had to acknowledge the
 2 Charm|         different lights.~I. An English translation ought to be
 3 Charm|         him will be lost to the English reader. It should read as
 4 Charm|  requirement of all, that it be English. Further, the translation
 5 Charm|  Further, the translation being English, it should also be perfectly
 6 Charm|     reference to the Greek, the English being really the more lucid
 7 Charm|        maintained that ordinary English writing, such as the newspaper
 8 Charm|    diverge most widely from the English idiom. The translator will
 9 Charm|    Greek into the more concrete English, or vice versa, and he ought
10 Charm|        is necessary to make the English clear and consecutive.~It
11 Charm|      interests of the Greek and English are often at war with one
12 Charm|         another. In framing the English sentence we are insensibly
13 Charm|        to cramp and overlay the English. We substitute, we compromise,
14 Charm|         of expression which the English language is quite capable
15 Charm|        differences in Greek and English, of which some may be managed
16 Charm|        inferential particles in English, and by the nice sense of
17 Charm|    which cannot be expressed in English. And while English is more
18 Charm| expressed in English. And while English is more dependent than Greek
19 Charm|     equal nicety of emphasis in English as in Greek.~2 The formation
20 Charm|    greatly differs in Greek and English. The lines by which they
21 Charm|        less articulated than in English. For it was long before
22 Charm| neglected if the harmony of the English language is to be preserved.
23 Charm|       genders. Men and women in English are masculine and feminine,
24 Charm|       in translating Greek into English which cannot altogether
25 Charm|        neuter? The usage of the English language does not admit
26 Charm|   Collective nouns in Greek and English create a similar but lesser
27 Charm|       extended in Greek than in English. Partly the greater variety
28 Charm|         in Greek as in Latin or English, nor in earlier Greek as
29 Charm|         cases the genius of the English language requires that the
30 Charm|       have an awkward effect in English. Frequently the noun has
31 Charm|       And, therefore, while the English translator is limited in
32 Charm|     Plato often goes beyond the English in its imagery: compare
33 Charm|     same Greek word by the same English word. There is no reason
34 Charm|        no kind of literature in English which corresponds to the
35 Charm|      Greek Dialogue; nor is the English language easily adapted
36 Charm|     form. Most of the so-called English Dialogues are but poor imitations
37 Charm|         quality; the mere prose English is slow in lending itself
38 Charm|      not be temperate.~Nay (The English reader has to observe that