collapsa

Updated: May 22, 2025

The position, indeed, conceded to him in the book-hunting field through the influence of these becoming decorations has communicated to him something of the uneasiness of Juvenal's "Miserum est aliorum incubere famæ, Ne collapsa ruant subductis tecta columnis."

John Hill Burton - The Book-Hunter: A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author