"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, September 25, 2024
A Child's Prayer
Eustratius, Life of Eutychius 8 (Patrologia Graeca, vol. 86, col. 2284; tr. Robert Kaster):
Lord, give me the grace of good understanding, that I might learn letters and gain the upper hand over my fellows.