"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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Friday, July 24, 2009
List of Epigrams by Palladas
A convenient list, divided into genuine and doubtful epigrams, from Alfred Franke, De Pallada epigrammatographo (diss. Leipzig, 1899), pp. 23-24:
Roman numerals refer to books of the Greek Anthology.