"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, May 19, 2025
Aischrologia
Propertius 3.10.24 (addressed to Cynthia; tr. G.P. Goold):
Let ... the language of your naughtiness lack all restraint ...
... sint nequitiae libera verba tuae ...
L. Richardson, Jr., in his commentary ad loc., seems to me totally misguided:
