It is more emphatically true that evil associations corrupt good morals, which was probably the meaning intended by the translators.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
This last material, in especial, is included chiefly because of the light which it throws in retrospect on the views of earlier translators, and only the main course of theory, by this time fairly easy to follow, is traced.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
translators occasionally give interesting details regarding the circumstances under which they read and translated.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos