Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, …
Do you know how the Romans fattened up their dormice?
— Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang (Page 428)
vocabulary: dormice
I've always assumed these were rodents, but i really have no conception of what dormice are. like, are any of the rats I see in SF dormice??