Hall did not work from the Greek, or even from the Latin, but from Hugues Salel's French translation, which was in turn translated from a Latin version.
Usually a language is translated from a foreign tongue into a translator's native tongue.
They say they don't want to read me translated from a foreign tongue.
But how is that translated from a shopping list into a linked set of aspirations and an ideology?
The text has been translated from a Cyrillic alphabet to a phonetic one, enabling non-Russian-speaking singers to sing in Russian.
Genuine customers may take little care with spelling and grammar, but some reviews sound as if they were translated from a foreign language.
The evening began with a ritual recitation of the grim statistics: less than three per cent of what gets published here is translated from a foreign language.
"Landslide," slowed up and translated from a guitar ballad into a piano-based one, revolved around the words "I'm getting older too".
Though it's not possible to judge poetry translated from a foreign language, I am able to describe the impression a new version has on me.
Second, Channel 4 argues that it was testing boundaries: it was the first time this controversial standup comedian, always heavily edited for TV, had translated from a live stage act to full-length series.
She cited a report by Literature Across Frontiers, which put to the test the oft-quoted statistic that only 3% of books published in this country have been translated from a foreign language.
