1. How do you show a foreign term followed by its translation? Is the foreign term placed in quotation marks with its translation italicized or the other way around? Style guides favor but don't always require the foreign word to be in italics.
2. What if the foreign word is a quotation? Would you need italics and quotation marks? If so, how would you punctuate the subsequent translation, with parentheses?
3. Absent the obligation to follow a specific style guide, should a writer just decide on an approach that is logical, easily understood and stick with that?

### Example

* "Cloaca Maxima" *greatest sewer*

or

* *Cloaca Maxima* "greatest sewer"