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
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Most recent posts
Plutarch, To an Uneducated Ruler 2 = Moralia 780 B (tr. Harold North Fowler): For one who is falling cannot hold others up, nor can one who is ignorant teach, nor the uncultivated impart culture, …
Augustine, Sermons 167.4 (Patrologia Latina, vol. 38, col. 910; tr. Edmund Hill): There is a well-known Punic proverb, which I will of course quote to you in Latin, because you don't all know Punic. It's …
Donald Kagan (1932-2021), The Fall of the Athenian Empire (1987; rpt. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991), p. 107: Theognis divided mankind into two distinct types: the good and noble and the bad and base. The …