[onraglanroad]

It's a little odd to blame this on the English translation since Voltaire was, naturally, writing in French:

"Ce corps qui s'appelait et qui s'appelle encore le saint empire romain n'était en aucune manière ni saint, ni romain, ni empire."

[pjio]

Fair point, the original sentence is French and not English. Both are closer to Latin than German, so the mistranslation might be more on the German side.