But Jonathan, he adds, takes on him the liberty of a paraphrast. |
The brazen serpent was called the Word by the chaldee paraphrast. |
The word in these two texts, usually translated shoe by the chaldee paraphrast, in the latter is rendered glove. |
In 1491 he traveled to Venice, ostensibly to meet Ermolao Barbaro, who was famous as an eloquent translator of Themistius, the fourth-century paraphrast of Aristotle. |
In short, FitzGerald was more properly a paraphrast than a translator. |
Except in inserting the prayer and the Benedicite, the paraphrast draws only from the canonical part of the book of Daniel. |