"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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Saturday, March 24, 2018
Our Plight
Plato, Gorgias 527 e (tr. W.R.M. Lamb):
We are so sadly uneducated.
εἰς τοσοῦτον ἥκομεν ἀπαιδευσίας.
Somewhat more literally, "To such a low point of stupidity have we come."