I have eyes and I have ears, and I have both my feet,Erasmus, Adagia III x 56 quotes these lines under the heading "Qui per se sufficit."
and a mind inside my breast which is not without understanding.
εἰσί μοι ὀφθαλμοί τε καὶ οὔατα καὶ πόδες ἄμφω
καὶ νόος ἐν στήθεσσι τετυγμένος οὐδὲν ἀεικής.
"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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Saturday, August 03, 2024
A Sound Mind in a Sound Body
Homer, Odyssey 20.365-366 (tr. Richmond Lattimore):