"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 08, 2023
Prayer
Homer, Odyssey 1.378-379 = 2.143-144 (Telemachus speaking; tr. Simon Pulleyn):
But I shall cry out to the everlasting gods,
In the hope that Zeus will grant me deeds of requital.