"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, November 07, 2025
Sweet It Is
Hesiod, fragment 274 Merkelbach and West (p. 134), lines 1-2 (tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White):
For pleasant it is at a feast and rich banquet
to tell delightful tales, when men have had enough of feasting...