But to tell about the contempt of the divine power that prevails among some people in these days would be a long story.
ἀλλ' ὑπὲρ μὲν τῆς εἰς τὸ δαιμόνιον ὀλιγωρίας, ᾗ χρῶνταί τινες ἐν τοῖς καθ' ἡμᾶς χρόνοις, πολὺ ἔργον ἂν εἴη λέγειν.
"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, February 15, 2023
A Long Story
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 2.6.4 (tr. Earnest Cary):