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The Etymology and Syntax of the English Language Explained and Illustrated

Note 120 — Chapter I · OF CONCORD.

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Our translators, as the judicious critic last quoted observes, have totally enervated the strength of the original, which runs thus, ἔπεσε, ἔπεσε, Βαβυλὼν ἡ πόλις ἡ μεγάλη, and which they have rendered, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city.”

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