Epigraph translation, according to Chicago Manual of Style

Question

There is a book by John Doe in which there is an epigraph by Goethe, which is translated into English by Jim Oe.

Chapter 1

                  Rosen sind rot,
                  Veilchen sind blau.[1]
                  - Goethe

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[1] "Roses are red, Violets are blue." - transl. by Jim Oe

What is the correct way to "style" the translation according to The Chicago Manual of Style?

• E.g., should there will be a dash or instead a comma before the word "transl."?
• Should the translation be enclosed in quotation marks, or should it be typed using italic font and without quotation marks instead? Or maybe it should be used parentheses? "Roses are red, Violets are blue." (transl. by Jim Oe)
• Maybe something else

Answer 1

The Chicago Manual of Style says:

14.38 Quotation within a note. When a note includes a quotation, the source normally follows the terminal punctuation of the quotation. The entire source need not be put in parentheses ...

1. One estimate of the size of the reading public at this time was that of Sydney Smith: “Readers are fourfold in number compared with what they were before the beginning of the French war.... There are four or five hundred thousand read­ ers more than there were thirty years ago, among the lower orders.” Letters, ed. Nowell C. Smith (New York: Oxford University Press, 1953), 1:341, 343.

Your example should therefore read:

1. “Roses are red, Violets are blue.” Transl. by Jim Oe.

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Note

The CMOS requires that you give your sources. In your example, neither the source for the original nor for the translation are given. Therefore, according to the CMOS, the footnote would be considered incorrect.