"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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Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Come Unto Me, All Ye That Labour and Are Heavy Laden
Terracotta figurine, in Paris, Musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquités grecques, étrusques et romaines (Numéro catalogue: Myr 332,
Numéro de collection: Myrina 379; 1st century AD):
