[I]t is a sobering thought that neither of the two leading commentators on Roman poetry uses a word-processor: E.J. Kenney prefers a typewriter, and Nisbet a black ballpoint pen.
"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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Alessandro Barchiesi, review of R.G.M. Nisbet and Niall Rudd, A Commentary on Horace, Odes Book III (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), in Classical World 100 (2006) 73-74 (at 74):