Hence the teacher of literature at Rome must waste much time upon elucidating the text, telling the myths in full, and giving convenient compendia of metamorphoses, of Homeric heroes, of "trees and flowers of the poets," and the like.

To the modern reader it is dull because he has at hand far better compendia; it is uninspired no doubt: the theme did not lend itself to enthusiastic treatment; the obscurity and awkwardness of expression and the imitative phraseology betray a young unformed style.

Arrangement is by author or issuing body or, in the case of serials, compendia, etc., by title.

Arrangement is by author or issuing body or, in the case of serials, compendia, etc., by title.

Arrangement is by author or issuing body or, in the case of serials, compendia, etc., by title.

Arrangement is by author or issuing body or, in the case of serials, compendia, etc., by title.

Therefore, compilations should be read as seldom as possible: it is difficult to avoid them entirely, since compendia, which contain in a small space knowledge that has been collected in the course of several centuries, are included in compilations.