"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, September 11, 2017
Trimalchio's Question
Petronius, Satyricon 72.2 (tr. Michael Heseltine, rev. E.H. Warmington):
Trimalchio said, "Well, well, if we know we must die, why should we not live?"
Trimalchio "Ergo" inquit "cum sciamus nos morituros esse, quare non vivamus?"