"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).
Pages
▼
Saturday, December 02, 2023
It Takes One to Know One
Cicero, Academica 2.3.9 (tr. H. Rackham):
For to decide who is a wise man seems to be a task that specially requires a wise man to undertake it.
statuere enim qui sit sapiens vel maxime videtur esse sapientis.