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Translating Homer ter Jones, in Encounter (Jan. 1988),44 Great
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The Roman statesman Cato the Elder (234-149 B.c.) counseled young orators: rem tene, verba sequenturÃ?â??6'Kee a grip on the argument, and the words will follow." Jones, a senior lecturer in classics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, agrees with Cato's advice. Translators, he argues, should conserve each sentence in the original text.
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