Passage: Historically, translation studies has long been prescriptive (telling translators how to translate), to the point that discussions of translation that were not prescriptive were generally not considered to be about translation at all. Ketika sejarawan studi terjemahan menelusuri pemikiran Barat awal tentang terjemahan, misalnya, mereka paling sering memulai dengan pernyataan Cicero tentang bagaimana ia menggunakan terjemahan dari Yunani ke Latin untuk meningkatkan kemampuan oratorinya.
Herodotus