Wanting to avoid Charybdis, you fall into Scylla.See Renzo Tosi, Dictionnaire des sentences latines et grecques, tr. Rebecca Lenoir (Grenoble: Jérôme Millon, 2010), pp. 520-522 (#668).
Incidis in Scillam cupiens uitare Caribdim.
"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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Tuesday, November 05, 2024
Scylla and Charybdis
Walter of Châtillon, Alexandreis 5.301 (ed. Marvin L. Colker, p. 133; my translation):