"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, February 24, 2023
Scholiasts
Ronald Syme, "The Sons of Piso the Pontifex," in his Roman Papers, III (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984), pp. 1226-1232 (at 1230):
Scholiasts vary
enormously in value: from facts or rational inference to sad ineptitude.