"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, August 05, 2022
Faith in Tradition
Ovid, Fasti 4.203-204 (tr. James George Frazer, rev. G.P. Goold):
The testimony of antiquity passes for good; pray do not shake the general faith.
pro magno teste vetustas
creditur; acceptam parce movere fidem.