Every man shall find his own desire; there is no one thing which pleases all: one man gathers thorns and another roses.Related post: Individual Differences.
inveniet quod quisque velit: non omnibus unum est
quod placet: hic spinas colligit, ille rosas.
"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, April 03, 2025
Different Tastes
Petronius (?), Poems 1 (tr. Michael Heseltine):