"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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Thursday, March 13, 2025
Old Is Best
Plautus, Casina 5-6 (tr. Wolfgang de Melo):
I think people who drink old wine are wise,
and so are those who enjoy watching old plays.
qui utuntur vino vetere sapientis puto
et qui lubenter veteres spectant fabulas.