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Which author's translation do I buy? Which is the

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Which author's translation do I buy?

Which is the truest to the original?
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I have the Penguin Classics edition above and, although I haven't read any other translations, I sometimes get the feeling the translator may have romanticised some of his notes. I just find it hard to believe someone would write so formally and superfluously to themselves.
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>>10013502
modern library
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>>10013502
>he can't read Latin
Get out, pleb.
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>>10015054
This book was originally written in Greek you stupid Muslim.
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>>10013502
>>10013638

I also have the Penguin edition and it is garbage. Modern Library is where it's at.
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>>10013502
Gregory Hayes translation is really accessible if you're a pleb like me anon
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>>10013502
Penguin is a good translation, but the most true is Farquharson's, which is the Everyman's Library edition
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