"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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Sunday, June 22, 2025
Wasteland
Lucretius 1.208-209 (tr. W.H.D. Rouse, rev. Martin F. Smith):
...we see that cultivated land is better than uncultivated,
and returns better fruit by the labour of our hands...
...incultis praestare videmus
culta loca et manibus melioris reddere fetus...