"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, September 20, 2026
Employment Opportunities for Latinists
A Doonesbury cartoon (December 19, 1981):
A copy of this (with HERBERT changed to MIKE) used to hang in my corporate cubicle — in addition to degrees in Latin and Classics, I have a degree in Computer Science.
