"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).
If you've never seen Athens, your brain's a morass;The Greek:
if you've seen it and weren't entranced, you're an ass;
if you left without regrets, your head's solid brass!
εἰ μὴ τεθέασαι τὰς Ἀθήνας, στέλεχος εἶ·I'm in the first category.
εἰ δὲ τεθέασαι μὴ τεθήρευσαι δ', ὄνος·
εἰ δ' εὐαρεστῶν ἀποτρέχεις, κανθήλιος.