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Render a passage from your study language into English (or another tongue), set it aside, and later turn your own translation back. Your retranslation is then compared with the original — not for slavish identity, but in the manner of Ascham: “so would Cicero have written it.”

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Greek

Plato 12 passages

Apology 17a Apology 17a
Apology 17b Apology 17b
Apology 18a Apology 18a
Apology 21d Apology 21d
Apology 28b Apology 28b
Apology 28d Apology 28d
Apology 29c Apology 29c
Apology 30a Apology 30a
Apology 30b Apology 30b
Apology 31c Apology 31c
Apology 38a Apology 38a
Apology 41d Apology 41d

Xenophon 12 passages

Anabasis 1.1.1 Anabasis 1.1.1
Anabasis 1.1.2 Anabasis 1.1.2
Anabasis 1.2.1 Anabasis 1.2.1
Anabasis 1.5.1 Anabasis 1.5.1
Anabasis 1.7.1 Anabasis 1.7.1
Anabasis 1.8.20 Anabasis 1.8.20
Anabasis 1.8.27 Anabasis 1.8.27
Anabasis 2.1.4 Anabasis 2.1.4
Anabasis 3.1.4 Anabasis 3.1.4
Anabasis 4.7.21 Anabasis 4.7.21
Anabasis 5.4.32 Anabasis 5.4.32
Anabasis 6.1.16 Anabasis 6.1.16

Japanese

夏目漱石 (Natsume Sōseki) 12 passages

Wagahai wa Neko de Aru 1.1 吾輩は猫である 1.1
Wagahai wa Neko de Aru 1.2 吾輩は猫である 1.2
Wagahai wa Neko de Aru 1.3 吾輩は猫である 1.3
Wagahai wa Neko de Aru 2.1 吾輩は猫である 2.1
Wagahai wa Neko de Aru 2.2 吾輩は猫である 2.2
Wagahai wa Neko de Aru 3.1 吾輩は猫である 3.1
Wagahai wa Neko de Aru 3.2 吾輩は猫である 3.2
Wagahai wa Neko de Aru 4.1 吾輩は猫である 4.1
Wagahai wa Neko de Aru 5.1 吾輩は猫である 5.1
Wagahai wa Neko de Aru 6.1 吾輩は猫である 6.1
Wagahai wa Neko de Aru 7.1 吾輩は猫である 7.1
Wagahai wa Neko de Aru 8.1 吾輩は猫である 8.1

Latin

Caesar 12 passages

De Bello Gallico 1.1.1 De Bello Gallico 1.1.1
De Bello Gallico 1.2.1 De Bello Gallico 1.2.1
De Bello Gallico 1.7.1 De Bello Gallico 1.7.1
De Bello Gallico 1.13.1 De Bello Gallico 1.13.1
De Bello Gallico 4.1.1 De Bello Gallico 4.1.1
De Bello Gallico 5.14.1 De Bello Gallico 5.14.1
De Bello Gallico 6.13.1 De Bello Gallico 6.13.1
De Bello Gallico 6.13.2 De Bello Gallico 6.13.2
De Bello Gallico 6.14.1 De Bello Gallico 6.14.1
De Bello Gallico 6.16.1 De Bello Gallico 6.16.1
De Bello Gallico 7.4.1 De Bello Gallico 7.4.1
De Bello Gallico 7.77.1 De Bello Gallico 7.77.1

Cicero 12 passages

De Amicitia 20 De Amicitia 20
De Amicitia 22 De Amicitia 22
De Amicitia 26 De Amicitia 26
De Amicitia 30 De Amicitia 30
De Amicitia 32 De Amicitia 32
De Amicitia 47 De Amicitia 47
De Amicitia 51 De Amicitia 51
De Amicitia 62 De Amicitia 62
De Amicitia 71 De Amicitia 71
De Amicitia 80 De Amicitia 80
De Amicitia 92 De Amicitia 92
De Amicitia 100 De Amicitia 100