"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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Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Festivus
The holiday Festivus is pronounced with the accent on the first syllable (here the antepenult), but in the Latin word festivus, the -i- is long, thus making the accent fall on the next to last syllable (the penult).