Moreover, most people actually laugh at me for carrying on research in these matters, and I am accused of busying myself with trifles.Related post: Orchideenfach.
immo vero plerisque ultro etiam inrisui sumus ista commentantes atque frivoli operis arguimur.
"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, April 13, 2014
A Laughingstock
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 22.7.15 (tr. W.H.S. Jones):