I remember reading back in the eighties that a Japanese firm was interested in making one of the joke inventions of Daedalus, a sundial that works at night (by means of a mechanism that carries a light source to the appropriate place above the dial).
Not all old Loebs were bad, though some are dreadful, not so much for avoiding obscenity as for poor scholarship and fustian language. Duff’s Lucan, for example, was well respected. As to Martial, Ker did not mistranslate obscenities, he kept them from youthful eyes by providing an Italian translation.
The White Goddess has been mentioned, but The Greek Myths must have misled far more readers (it looks more like a real reference work). Graves also translated Lucan for Penguin; the translation is sometimes free invention.
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