But, once the message has been transmitted, the text exists independently.

True texts of those names may have existed, but remain obscure.

The text exists only in a late, corrupt Latin translation.

The text exists in both three and five volume editions.

As the text no longer exists, very little is actually known about it.

This is a problem of distribution rather than translation, because the text does exist in Swedish.

Few texts of this type existed at the time.

In other words, the text already exists on paper.

Theirs and many other ancient texts exist only in fragments.

The text already existed theoretically, but had to be found by the act of the author's imagination.