Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, …
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They're going to have sepoys fight the Afghans, just like they had sepoys fight and die for them at Irrawaddy, because those Indian troops have the same logic you do, which is that it's better to be a servant of the Empire, brutal coercion and all, than to resist.
— Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang (Page 676)
new vocabulary: sepoy
an Indian soldier serving under British or other European orders