Mucianus desired to be honoured by all and above all, so that he was displeased not only when any man whatever insulted him, but also when anyone failed to extol him greatly.
ὅτι ὁ Μουκιανὸς τιμᾶσθαι ὑφ᾿ ἁπάντων ὑπὲρ πάντας ἤθελεν, καὶ ἤχθετο εἰ καὶ ὁστισοῦν οὐχ ὅτι ὑβρίσειεν αὐτόν, ἀλλ᾿ οὐ μὴ οὐ μεγάλως ἀγήλειε.
"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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Friday, September 28, 2018
Need for Approval
Dio Cassius 65.13 (tr. Earnest Cary and Herbert Baldwin Foster):