Apophthegmata
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Apophthegmata is the title of several collections of aphorism
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Aphorism
An aphorism is an original thought, spoken or written in a laconic and memorable form.The term was first used in the Aphorisms of Hippocrates...
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Adage
An adage is a short but memorable saying which holds some important fact of experience that is considered true by many people, or that has gained some credibility through its long use....
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- Apophthegmata Laconica attributed to Plutarchus
- Apophthegmata PatrumApophthegmata PatrumThe Apophthegmata Patrum is the name given to various collections of Sayings of the Desert Fathers, consisting of stories and sayings attributed to the Desert Fathers from approximately the 5th century CE....
, sayings of the Desert FathersDesert FathersThe Desert Fathers were hermits, ascetics, monks, and nuns who lived mainly in the Scetes desert of Egypt beginning around the third century AD. The most well known was Anthony the Great, who moved to the desert in 270–271 and became known as both the father and founder of desert monasticism... - Apophthegmata Macarii Magni
- Apophthegmatum opusApophthegmatum opusApophthegmatum opus a translation of Plutarch's Apophthegmata by Erasmus of Rotterdam. It is a collection of apophthegms from classical antiquity....
by Erasmus of Rotterdam - Conrad LycosthenesConrad LycosthenesConrad Lycosthenes was an Alsatian humanist and encyclopedist.-Life:He was born in Rouffach in Alsace on August 8, 1518, the son of Theobald Wolffhart and Elizabeth Kürsner, sister of the Protestant theologian Conrad Pellicanus...
(ca. 1518-1561), Apophthegmata, Ex Probatis Graecae Latinaeque Linguae Scriptoribus - Julius Wilhelm Zincgref, Der Teutschen Scharpfsinnige kluge Sprüch (1626)
- Georg Philipp HarsdörfferGeorg Philipp HarsdorfferGeorg Philipp Harsdörffer , German poet and translator, was born in Nuremberg.He studied law at Altdorf and Strassburg, and subsequently traveled through the Netherlands, England, France and Italy...
, Ars Apophthegmatica (1655-56)