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
Homer, Odyssey 20.25-30 (tr. George Herbert Palmer): As when a man near a great glowing fire turns to and fro a sausage, full of fat and blood, anxious to have it quickly roast; so to …
Crates of Thebes, fragment 18 in Hermann Diels, ed., Poetarum Philosophorum Fragmenta (Berlin: Weidmann, 1901), p. 223 (my translation): You don't know how much power a leather pouch has, and a day's ration of lupin …
Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), Zibaldone, tr. Kathleen Baldwin et al. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), p. 1219 (Z 2946): I therefore pardon the modern poet if he follows ancient things, if he employs ancient …