I wish there was someone to offer us better advice than mine,Martha Krieter-Spiro ad loc. (tr. Benjamin W. Millis and Sara Strack):
either young man or old: this is what I’d really welcome.
νῦν δʼ εἴη ὃς τῆσδέ γʼ ἀμείνονα μῆτιν ἐνίσποι
ἢ νέος ἠὲ παλαιός· ἐμοὶ δέ κεν ἀσμένῳ εἴη.
"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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Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Seeking Advice
Homer, Iliad 14.107-108 (Agamemnon speaking; tr. Peter Green):
