The creator, Erasmus Apophthegmatum opus is a translation of Plutarch's Apophthegmata by Erasmus of Rotterdam, a collection of apophthegms from classical antiquity. Many classical apophthegms repeated ideas of Socrates, Plato, and Alexander the Great. According to Speroni, Apophthegmatum opus is one of "the most monumental collections of classical apophthegms… ever assembled…"Speroni, C. (1964). Wit and wisdom of the Italian Renaissance, Berkeley, CA, USA: University of California Press.
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The poetry of Calormen is prolix, sententious, and moralizing. Quotations from Calormen poets are often quoted as proverbs. These include such as the following:Unseth, Peter. 2011. A culture “full of choice apophthegms and useful maxims”: invented proverbs in C.S. Lewis’ The Horse and His Boy.
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He founded and planned several hospitals. Francis Bacon included three of his sayings in his Apophthegms, and chose him as "the learnedest councillor in the kingdom to present to the king his Advancement of Learning." After his death, it was discovered that he had been involved in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury.
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Arsène Apostolios knew only the provisional building.] He has written several prefaces to editions of ancient authors to which he was associated. He has also published a collection of apophthegms of philosophers, generals, orators, and poets, drawn from the Ἰωνιά (his field of violets) of his father Michael, which he has published in Rome in 1519 whom Zacharias Calliergi completed. The volume also contains a small dialogue of its composition, between a bibliophile, a bookseller and the book personified.
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The formidable pronouncements of Lady Bracknell are as startling for her use of hyperbole and rhetorical extravagance as for her disconcerting opinions. In contrast, the speech of Dr. Chasuble and Miss Prism is distinguished by "pedantic precept" and "idiosyncratic diversion". Furthermore, the play is full of epigrams and paradoxes. Max Beerbohm described it as littered with "chiselled apophthegms – witticisms unrelated to action or character", of which he found half a dozen to be of the highest order.
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The writings attributed to Theano were: Pythagorean Apophthegms, Female Advice, On Virtue, On Piety, On Pythagoras, Philosophical Commentaries, and Letters.Ian Michael Plant, (2004), Women writers of ancient Greece and Rome: an anthology, page 69. University of Oklahoma Press None of these writings have survived except a few fragments and letters of uncertain authorship. Attempts have been made to assign some of these fragments and letters to the original Theano (Theano I) and some to a later Theano (Theano II),Mary Ellen Waithe, A History of Women Philosophers.
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"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" by Louis Untermeyer, raynhalfpint.wordpress.com The moral stated at the end of the Greek version is, "this shows how liars are rewarded: even if they tell the truth, no one believes them". It echoes a statement attributed to Aristotle by Diogenes Laërtius in his The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, in which the sage was asked what those who tell lies gain by it and he answered "that when they speak truth they are not believed".Translated by C. D. Yonge: Section XI (apophthegms) of the life of Aristotle William Caxton similarly closes his version with the remark that "".
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Here are a few samples of Erasmus' apophthegms: > While on the march with his army one winter, Alexander the Great was sitting > by a campfire, watching the army as it marched by. He noticed an old warrior > shivering from the cold, trying to find a place near the fire. Alexander > bade the man sit in his own chair, saying, "If you had been born a Persian, > it would cost you your head to sit in the king's chair, but you are a > Macedonian, not a Persian. Sit." > Metellus once accused Cicero of having caused more people to die through his > personal testimony than he had saved through his representing them in court.
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Sententiae, the nominative plural of the Latin word sententia, are brief moral sayings, such as proverbs, adages, aphorisms, maxims, or apophthegms taken from ancient or popular or other sources, often quoted without context. Sententia, the nominative singular, also called a "sentence", is a kind of rhetorical proof. Through the invocation of a proverb, quotation, or witty turn of phrase during a presentation or conversation one may be able to gain the assent of the listener, who will hear a kind of non-logical, but agreed- upon "truth" in what you are saying. An example of this is the phrase "age is better with wine" playing off of the adage "wine is better with age".
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This legend was originally written in the 6th century in Syriac and was later translated into Arabic and expanded upon. The Laments of the Philosophers eventually gained enormous popularity in Europe: > [The 'Sayings of the Philosophers' are] remarks of the philosophers gathered > at the tomb of Alexander, who utter a series of apophthegms on the theme of > the brevity of life and the transience of human achievement ... a work > entitled 'Sayings of the Philosophers' was first composed in Syriac in the > sixth century; a longer Arabic version was composed by Hunayan Ibn Ishaq > (809-973) the distinguished scholar-translator, and a still longer one by > al-Mubashshir ibn Fatiq (who also wrote a book about Alexander) around 1053. > Hunayan's version was translated into Spanish ... in the late thirteenth > century.Hofmann, Heinz.
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A more extended critique of these early political scientists can be found in "Hobbes" by George Croom Robertson."Hobbes", George Croom Robertson, William Blackwood and sons, 1886 Hume allows Arthur, and even Woden, to have been shadowy historic figures, and he mentions the poet Taliesin (Thaliessin). He rates Alfred the Great beside Charlemagne as a man of letters: "Alfred endeavoured to convey his morality by apologues, parables, stories, apophthegms, couched in poetry; and besides propagating among his subjects, former compositions of that kind, which he found in the Saxon tongue, he exercised his genius in inventing works of a like nature, as well as in translating from the Greek the elegant fables of Aesop. He also gave Saxon translations of Orosius's and Bede's histories; and of Boethius concerning the consolation of philosophy".
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