"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, December 15, 2023
A Truth Teller
Homer, Odyssey 3.20 = 3.328 (said of Nestor and Menelaus; tr. Richmond Lattimore):
He will not tell you any falsehood; he is too thoughtful.