Note 3 — VOORWOORD.

Dr. Jowett zegt nog zoo mooi van vertalingen3: „An English translation ought to be idiomatic and interesting, not only to the scholar but to the unlearned reader, Its object should not simply be to render the words of one language into the words of another, or to preserve the construction and order of the original; this is the ambition of a schoolboy, who wishes to show that he has made a good use of his dictionary and grammar, but is quite unworthy of the translator who seeks to produce on his reader an impression similar, or nearly similar, to that produced by the original. To him the feeling should be more important than the exact word.”