"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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Monday, July 23, 2012
Solace
Moses Hadas, Hellenistic Culture: Fusion and Diffusion (1959; rpt. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1972), p. 119:
When the present has no room for glory men find solace in the glories of the past.