Academics generally agree that it was the best of its era. Later versions never matched these authoritative master translations, but they continued to appear both in Europe and America.
有了這幾位大師無可動搖與取代的經典譯作在先，後人的努力顯然黯然失色。即使如此，歐美專家學者仍前仆後繼，陸續有譯本出版。