"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, August 16, 2024
Senility
Aristophanes, Wealth 1066 (my translation):
Inasmuch as you're an old man, I think you're insane.
γέρων ἀνὴρ ὢν οὐχ ὑγιαίνειν μοι δοκεῖς.
Suetonius, Life of Claudius 15.4 (tr. J.C. Rolfe):