Such was Veii in those days. Who now ever remembers its former existence? What remains or traces of it are left? Our trust in our annals has a difficult task to make us believe that Veii ever existed.Related post: Then and Now.
hoc tunc Vei fuere. nunc fuisse quis meminit? quae reliquiae? quodve vestigium? laborat annalium fides, ut Veios fuisse credamus.
"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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Veii
Florus, Epitome 1.6(12).11 (tr. Edward Seymour Forster):