"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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Thursday, June 18, 2020
Life Beyond Classics
Nicholas Horsfall, quoted in James J. O'Hara, "Nicholas Horsfall, 1946-2019," Vergilius 65 (2019) 161-168 (at 166):
There is life beyond
classics, involving food and wine, cats, military history, cricket, music
of discontinuous periods, chess problems and crime fiction.