For you must know that since I came to the City, I have become reconciled with my old friends, in other words, with my books.
scito enim me, posteaquam in Urbem venerim, redisse cum veteribus amicis, id est cum libris nostris, in gratiam.
"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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Thursday, February 23, 2023
Old Friends
Cicero, Letters to His Friends 9.1.2 (tr. W. Glynn Williams):