Tag: punctuation
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January 6, 2017
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
The translation of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives contains some extremely long and complicated sentences. It comes as no surprise that the Dryden translations of Plutarch suffer from a lack of punctuation since the original Greek did not contain any punctuation either. In fact, scholars today cannot completely agree upon when to use a comma versus parentheses.