"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, August 07, 2024
Terrible
Critias, fragment 24 (R. Kannicht and B. Snell, edd., Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, vol. 1, p. 184; tr. Martin Cropp):
It's terrible when someone who's stupid thinks he's intelligent.