"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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Sunday, October 22, 2006
Two Greek Auto-Antonyms
The word γενέτης (genétēs) can mean both the begetter (father) and the begotten (son). Likewise γενέτειρα (genéteira) can mean she who bears (mother) and she who is born (daughter).