"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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Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Regress, not Progress
H.D. Jocelyn, "The Teubner of Varro's Menippean Satires,"
Classical Review 38.1 (1988) 33-36 (at 36):
These things were much better done in the nineteenth century.