Abstract
In the history of translation, Cicero and Jerome are regarded as the two leading authorities who developed their own theories on translation. Some scholars believe that the distinction lies in whether the texts translated by them were religious: Cicero freely translated Greek classics as non-religious texts; whereas Jerome literally translated the Bible as a religious text. In this paper, however, we focus on the difference in the source languages, in which the original text was written, namely Greek for Cicero and Hebrew for Jerome. Cicero often allowed the passages of his Latin translation to deviate from those of the Greek text, because he knew that the readers of his translation understood both languages. On the other hand, Jerome reduced the difference in expression between the Hebrew text and his Latin translation, so that readers who were unfamiliar with Hebrew could at least compare his translation with the source text verbatim.
https://ror.org/01fxdkm29 
