"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, October 19, 2019
What a Difference
Livy 8.33.13 (tr. Betty Radice):
What a difference there was between the
self-restraint of the ancients and this new kind of arrogance and cruelty!
quantum interesse inter moderationem antiquorum
et novam superbiam crudelitatemque.