Os desafios da tradução de textos “agronômicos” latinos

Abstract

In this article, we explore some of the challenges involved in translating Roman agrarian texts. These challenges correspond to translating into the target language the specificities of the language, lexicon and style of the “agronomists”. The analysis mode corresponded to a brief examination of the lexicon and the style in works such as Cato’s De agri cultura and Varro’s De re rustica, sometimes in comparison with the same aspects found in the Georgics. At last, we infer that, despite the particularities found in these “agronomical” treatises, the concerns about form and content have to integrate, as in the translation of other types of texts, the horizons of their translators.