"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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Wednesday, May 05, 2021
A Misprint
W.J. Watts, "Race Prejudice in the Satires of Juvenal,"
Acta Classica 19 (1976) 83-104 (at 84):
The satirist undoubtedly grouped mankind into three categories:
ad hoc se
Romanus Gaiusque et barbarus induperator
erexit. (X 137-9)