"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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Friday, August 22, 2025
Different Gifts
Euripides, Rhesus 625-626 (Diomedes to Odysseus; tr. Edward P. Coleridge):
For thou art well versed in clever tricks, and hast a ready wit.
And 'tis right to allot a man to the work he can best perform.