For accurate investigation of matters, putting truth to the question with a more searching scrutiny, often reveals that things which have passed for excellent are of quite another sort.
ἡ γὰρ τῶν πραγμάτων ἀκριβὴς ἐξέτασις καὶ τὰ δόξαντα πολλάκις καλῶς ἔχειν ἀλλοιότερα δείκνυσιν, ἀκριβεστέρᾳ πείρᾳ τἀληθὲς βασανίσασα.
"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, January 04, 2016
Accurate Investigation
Pseudo-Justin Martyr, Cohortatio ad Graecos 1.1 (tr. M. Dods):