"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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Friday, July 15, 2022
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Greek Anthology 7.33 (by Julian, Prefect of Egypt; tr. W.R. Paton):
A. "You died of drinking too much, Anacreon." B. "Yes, but I enjoyed it,
and you who do not drink will come to Hades, too."