Rembrandt The Sacrifice of Abraham painting

Rembrandt The Sacrifice of Abraham painting
John Singer Sargent A Morning Walk painting
geographical names have been used: thus "France", not 'Transalpine Gaul", because France covers roughly the same territorial area and it would be inconsistent to call towns like Nimes and Boulogne and Lyons by their modem names -their classical ones would not be popularly recognized- while placing them in Galatia Transadpina OT, as the Greeks called it, Galatia. (Greek geographical terms are most confusing: Germany was "the country of the Celts".) Similarly the most familiar forms of proper names have been used- "Livy" for Titus Livius, "Cymbeline" for Cunobelinus, “Mark Antony" for Marcus Antonius.
Lord Frederick Leighton Leighton Mother and Child painting
has been difficult at times to find suitable renderings for military, legal and other technical terms. To give a single instance, there is the word "assegai". Aircraftman T. E. Shaw (whom I take this opportunity of thanking for his careful reading of these proofs) questions my use of "assegai" as an equivalent of the German