Adages. Volume 4, IIil-IIvi100 / translated and annotated by R.A.B. Mynors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.

Contributor:

Mynors, R. A. B. (Roger Aubrey Baskerville), 1903-1989.

Series:

Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536. English. 1974 ; Works. v. 33.

Collected works of Erasmus ; Volume 33

New Testament scholarship

Standardized Title:

Adagia. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Proverbs, Greek--History and criticism.

Proverbs, Greek.

Proverbs, Latin--History and criticism.

Proverbs, Latin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (491 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When Erasmus published the Adages, his monumental collection of proverbs, he wrote in the Introduction that 'a knowledge of proverbs contributes to a number of things, but to four especially: philosophy, persuasiveness, grace and charm in speaking, and the understanding of the best authors.' This volume contains another 600 of 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 out common stock of speech.

Contents:

v. 2. Iil to Iv100

v. 3. Ivi to I x 100

v. 33. II i 1 to II vi 100

v. 34. II vii 1 to III iii 100

v. 35 III iv to IV ii 100

v. 36. IV iii 1 to V ii 51.

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)

Other Format:

Print version: Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536. Adagia. English. Adages. Volume 4, IIil-IIvi100.

ISBN:

1-282-03989-X

9786612039898

9781442670631

1442670630

OCLC:

944178537