Laudator Temporis Acti

"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

Plataea

Odysseus Elytis (1911-1996), "The Shape of Boeotia," tr. Nikos Gatsos:

Here where a desolate glance blows on the stones and the deathless agavae
Here where the footsteps of time are heard profoundly
Where the enormous clouds unfold sixwinged and golden
Above the metope of heaven....