"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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Monday, April 21, 2025
Leofrancus Nutat
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.20.5, ed. Leofranc Holford-Strevens (Oxford Classical Text [2020], p. 97):
In numeris etiam similiter κύβοϲ dicitur cum omne latus
eiusdem numeri aequabiliter in sese sol uitur, sicuti fit cum ter
terna ducuntur atque ipse numerus terplicatur.