Third there was his overwhelming devotion to scholarship. While Oldfather drove, his wife read aloud scholarly articles to him.Hat tip: Alan Crease.
"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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William M. Calder III, "Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff to William Abbott Oldfather: Three Unpublished
Letters,"
Classical Journal 72.2 (December, 1976 - January, 1977) 115-127 (at 118):