"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, November 30, 2019
Something Very Badly Wrong
Nicholas Horsfall, "Fraud as Scholarship: The Helen Episode and the Appendix Vergiliana,"
Illinois Classical Studies 31/32 (2006-2007) 1-27 (at 3):
Intellectually speaking, there is something very badly wrong with (most) Latinists.