From Willis Roth Regier’s Quotology (see here), p. 66: [Thomas Brown’s Laconics] claimed among its ancestors “the Perroniana, the Thuana, the Scaligerana, the Sorberiana, the Valesiana, the Menagiana, etc. containing the Observations and Sayings of several great Men, whose names they bear.” Such ana attributed their quotable contents to their protagonists; Brown wrote his own. … Continue reading Data points: libfixes 1/17/11