When the author undertakes to emend the text for himself, or offers an original interpretation, his work is not always trustworthy.
Arnold himself did not emend the text in a single instance.
The translator makes use of all the texts and commentaries that had appeared up to his time, and even goes so far as to emend the text for himself (cf.
Some of these are trivial slips that a scribe copying B might emend on his own initiative, or perhaps by a lucky mistake.
Others would slightly emend the text so as to read, "I pronounce happy," or "Happy are we.
But even if we were to admit all these statements and emend the offending verses the argument would be conclusive only on the assumption that the poems were written down from the very beginning[44].
Some critical scholar of eminence should be called upon to emend or explain this mysterious passage.
At least, if people are allowed to print such things in the nineteenth century what right have we to emend the classical authors when they choose to be unintelligible?
Such a critic would be laughed out of court, and told to mind his own business, or else learn Greek before he undertook to emend it.
A fair analogy would be the case of a chemist or engineer who had recently begun to dabble in Greek in his spare moments, and who should undertake to emend the text of Sophocles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "emend" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
