"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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Wednesday, November 08, 2017
Slow-Witted
Arnaldo Momigliano, "How Roman Emperors Became God," American Scholar 55.2 (Spring, 1986) 181-193 (at 182):
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classical scholars are notoriously slow-witted.