- An
abstemius (plural abstemii) is one who
cannot take wine
without risk of vomiting.
Since in
Catholic practice the
consecration at M**** must be effected...
-
later in the
Hecatomythium of the 15th-century
Italian scholar Laurentius Abstemius. In his telling, A wolf,
dressed in a sheep's skin,
blended himself in...
- the
frying panne fayre into the fyre'. The
Italian author Laurentius Abstemius wrote a
collection of 100 fables, the Hecatomythium,
during the 1490s...
- books.
Abstemius later wrote a
further 97
fables in a less
extreme vein,
Hecatomythium Secundum,
published in Fano in 1505. The
fables of
Abstemius were...
-
sources goes back to 1400. In
about 1490 the
Italian writer Laurentius Abstemius expanded the
proverb into a
short fable in
Latin titled De
rustico amnem...
- The
Perry Index is a
widely used
index of "Aesop's Fables" or "Aesopica", the
fables credited to Aesop, the
storyteller who
lived in
ancient Greece between...
-
Abstemius demonstrates the
kinship between the
story of "The
Eagle and the Fox" and
another by
Aesop about The
Eagle and the Beetle. In the
Abstemius...
-
already existing. In the
following century, the
Italian author Laurentius Abstemius made of the
fable a
Latin cautionary tale
titled De
muribus tintinnabulum...
- Kálfsson (1267–1331),
bishop of Hólar, Iceland, 1324–1331
Laurentius Abstemius,
Italian writer,
Professor of
Belles Lettres at Urbino, and Librarian...
- that
Roger L'Estrange
closes his
rendering of
Abstemius'
fable by
quoting the proverb,
where Abstemius had only
remarked that
useful things are to be...
