It's not just that one "might make a case" for reproducing Caesar's rhetoric. It's that there's no defensible case for doing anything else. Reproducing Caesar's rhetoric is the translator's whole job. "Resisting it" - i.e. willfully undercutting Caesar's style to soothe modern anxieties - would be scholarly malpractice of the highest order.
- From Spencer A. Klavan's Claremont Review of Books Fall 2025 review of Gallic War by Julius Caesar, translated by Cynthia Damon
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