Laudator Temporis Acti
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….
- By Michael Gilleland
- Roughly two posts per day
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Most recent posts
Johann Peter Eckermann, Conversations with Goethe, February 11, 1831 (tr. Ritchie Robertson): He then spoke with admiration of a young literary scholar in Leipzig, Karl Schöne, who had written a study of the costumes in …
Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 894 (tr. Wolfgang de Melo): You deserve a thousand bad things. mala mille meres. Insulting, but not so insulting as this statement by Google's Gemini AI chatbot.
Jaspreet Singh Boparai, "Why Read Lesser Writers? Politian on Silver Latin Literature," Antigone (November, 2024): The translator’s task here does not stop at the dictionary: you really do need to read all the Latin (or …