This is an original collection of exemplary emendations made by ancient and modern scholars.
Single examples are analysed in order to extract a method of emendation. The author reviews
some attractive interventions which offer a model of textual criticism: a kind of ideal museum
of critical intelligence applied to corruptions or cryptocorruptions which have damaged some
Greek and Latin literary texts. All Greek and Latin passages included are literally translated
and commented step by step. Advanced students and scholars are offered an orderly sequence of
cruces healed by great philologists so that a teaching route is granted.
