Sunday, May 10, 2020

 

Plain Talk

Stendhal (1783-1842), A Roman Journal, tr. Haakon Chevalier (New York: The Orion Press, 1957), p. 56:
Pliny, the man who teaches us the greatest number of things on antiquity, because instead of making phrases like Cicero he talks plainly, tells us that the obelisk before St. Peter's was erected at the behest of Nuncoré, king of Egypt, in the city of Heliopolis.

L'homme qui nous apprend le plus de choses sur l'antiquité, parce qu'au lieu de faire des phrases comme Cicéron il conte net, Pline, nous dit que Nuncoré, roi d'Égypte, fit élever dans la ville d'Héliopolis l'obélisque qui est à Saint-Pierre.
Thanks to Karl Narveson for correcting a mistake I originally made in the French quotation.



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