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It's supposed to be conveying some kind of regional accent/dialect, I think. A bit from the same translation:

A Spartan, being asked if the road into Sparta were safe, said, That depends on what kind of a mon ye are; for the lions gang about where they wull, but the hares we hunt over that land."

Edit: poking around the translation some, it looks like it's supposed to represent the Doric Greek dialect.

https://i.imgur.com/Di0nGS9.png

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Correct. The translated sentence ("my son was a gude and honourable mon, but Sparta has mony a mon better than him.") does ends with two distinctly Doric words: τήνω (there, i.e. in Sparta) κάρρονας (stronger/better), instead of the Attic ἐκεῖ κρείττονας.

> "my son was a gude and honourable mon, but Sparta has mony a mon better than him."

On a sidenote, this sounds northern irish to me. Think Daniel Day-Louis in The Boxer

Thanks! Fascinating that the translator chose to represent the dialectal bits explicitly with a contemporary dialect, even though the style of the translation is not all contemporary. And the contemporariness makes the intent hard to understand without reading a bunch of footnotes (or ancient Greek) only a few decades later.

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