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Old 10-23-2007, 07:42 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Archaea View Post
Are some of these translations too literal?

For example I read the first part of the first book and psuchas is translated as breath, when I thought of it as souls.
ψυχὰς on line 3? I'd translate this as shades or souls too - Achilles sends them to Hades.
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