It contains much of interest, but is a rather chaotic collection, delivered in flowery Latin, without much critical sense about the material. Still, I wish somebody would publish an English translation of the second part.
We spend a lot of time with ancient material here; they weren't concerned as we contemporaries are with things like consistency of length, or careful order. But then I read Sir Water Scott, of just a couple of hundred years ago, and he goes on FOREVER with his descriptions. And I love the Medievals, who expanded "Lancelot rides through a strange country having adventures" to like a million words.
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It contains much of interest, but is a rather chaotic collection, delivered in flowery Latin, without much critical sense about the material. Still, I wish somebody would publish an English translation of the second part.
We spend a lot of time with ancient material here; they weren't concerned as we contemporaries are with things like consistency of length, or careful order. But then I read Sir Water Scott, of just a couple of hundred years ago, and he goes on FOREVER with his descriptions. And I love the Medievals, who expanded "Lancelot rides through a strange country having adventures" to like a million words.
You just have to develop a taste for it, I guess.
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