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Adages. Volume 5, IIvii1 to IIIiii100 / translated and annotated by R.A.B. Mynors.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536, author.
- Series:
- Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536. English. 1974 ; Works. v. 34.
- New Testament scholarship
- Collected works of Erasmus ; Volume 34
- Standardized Title:
- Adagia. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Proverbs, Latin--History and criticism.
- Proverbs, Latin.
- Proverbs, Greek--History and criticism.
- Proverbs, Greek.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (471 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is one of seven volumes that will contain the more than 4000 adages that Erasmus gathered and commented on, sometimes in a few lines and sometimes in full-scale essays. The notes identify the classical sources and indicate how Erasmus' reading and thinking developed over the quarter-century spanned by the eight revisions of the original work. Many of the proverbs cited by Erasmus are still in our common stock of speech.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Adages: 1 Pomarius Hercules / Hercules eating apples – 100 Suem irritat / He provokes the boar
- Adages: 1 Servatori tertius / A third to the Deliverer – 100 Quam curat testudo muscam / More than a tortoise minds a fly
- Adages: 1 Stultior Morycho / As big a fool as Morychus – 100 Navis aut galerus / Ship or cap
- Adages: 1 Mazam pinsuit a me pistam / He baked the sponge cake I kneaded – 100 Nudior paxillo / As naked as a peg
- Adages: 1 Herculei labores / The labours of Hercules – 100 Animo aegrotanti medicus est oratio / To a sick spirit speech is a physician
- Adages: 1 Si quid mali, in Pyrrham / If there's anything bad, on Pyrrha's head – 100 Vitiat lapidem longum tempus / Length of time wears the marble
- Adages: 1 Sileni Alcibiadis / The Sileni of Alcibiades – 100 Intersecta musica / The music is cut off
- Notes
- Works Frequently Cited
- Table of Adages
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 1-282-01168-5
- 9786612011689
- 1-4426-7064-9
- OCLC:
- 944178506
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