%0 Journal Article %T Translation Criticism in Ancient Rome. Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights %A Ochman, Katarzyna %J Przekładaniec %V Numery anglojęzyczne %R 10.4467/16891864ePC.13.038.1455 %N Special Issue 2013 – Selection from the Archives %P 71-86 %K antiquity, translation criticism, translation in ancient Rome, imitatio, aemulatio, Cicero, Horace, Quintilian, Aulus Gellius %@ 1425-6851 %D 1970 %U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/przekladaniec/artykul/translation-criticism-in-ancient-rome-aulus-gellius-attic-nights %X We owe many aspects of Western culture to the Greeks; yet it was the Romans who took the fi rst steps in the fi eld of translation. This article presents a selection of characteristics of translation methods used by the Ancients and, more particularly, their broad understanding of translation as exemplifi ed by Aulus Gellius, Roman writer of the second century CE.