"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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Wednesday, May 22, 2024
The Best Thing
Pindar, fragment 126 Snell-Maehler, 110 Bowra (tr. Gregory S. Jones):
Do not impair pleasure in life; for by far
the best thing for man is a pleasant lifetime.