The Secret History by Donna Tartt: “Julian's note "asking me to translate an ode of Pindar's for our first class."”
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton: “great-witted Aristotle's works are as much authentical to them as Scriptures, subtle Seneca's Epistles as canonical as St. Paul's, Pindarus' Odes as good as the Prophet David's Psalms, Epictetus' Enchiridion equivalent to wise Solomon's Proverbs.”