"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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Monday, May 20, 2024
Response to a Question...
...during a political debate or a Ph.D. oral examination, from Sophocles, Philoctetes 253 (tr. Hugh Lloyd-Jones):
Know that I am ignorant of what you are asking me about.