"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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Saturday, October 18, 2014
What I Hate about Amazon
What a deal! Otto Skutsch's edition of Ennius' Annals for only $26.99 in paperback!
But click on the $26.99 price and what appears? Ethel Mary Steuart's edition: