A recent verse translation of the "Iliad" by Robert Fagles, an American poet and translator, has some of the majestic, plangent music of the original.
Don Sotero agreed to show the place to me and my translator, Juan.
It bewilders me that a translator of a Chekhov play should concern themselves with accurately replicating in English the Russian of the early last century even if this comes at the expense of the vitality, sensuality, pathos, rage and compassion of the spirit in which those plays were first made.
First Najib Razak, Malaysia's ambitious deputy prime minister and Abdullah's presumed heir, was linked in sworn court testimony to the 2006 murder of a Mongolian female translator with whom, it was claimed, he once had a sexual relationship.
He too claims to be a firm believer in the healing powers of Tiens, and acted as my translator throughout the seminar, seemingly on Wasswa's instruction.
"We definitely don't want the oil company," said Carlos Fasabi Panduro, from San José de Añushi in Peru, who acted as the meeting's translator on the second and third days.
By all accounts Ramesh has been more than a cook: she has been a translator, cultural ambassador and guide.
The translator with whom she was captured was freed in March.
He listened to testimony and arguments through headphones linked to an Arabic translator.
We had a translator the whole time that I was there; it was very difficult from a language perspective.
"Al-Shabaab are everywhere," he said through a translator.
