"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Dictionaries
The University of Minnesota Press will publish Anatoly Liberman's etymological dictionary of the English language in 2007.
The Cambridge New Greek Lexicon (a dictionary of ancient, not modern, Greek) is supposed to be complete in 2010.