"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, April 20, 2015
Keep in Touch
Cicero, Letters to Atticus 1.12.4 (tr. D.R. Shackleton Bailey):
I hope you will write to me often. If you lack a topic, just put down whatever comes into your head.
tu velim saepe ad nos scribas. si rem nullam habebis, quod in buccam venerit scribito.