"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, March 28, 2018
Repetition
Homer, Iliad 4.451 = 8.65 (tr. A.T. Murray, rev. William F. Wyatt):
The earth flowed with blood.
ῥέε δ᾽ αἵματι γαῖα.
Homer, Iliad 15.715 = 20.494 (tr. A.T. Murray, rev. William F. Wyatt):