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Adagia (singular adagium) is the
title of an
annotated collection of Gr**** and
Latin proverbs,
compiled during the
Renaissance by
Dutch humanist Desiderius...
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often known as the
Adagia, was a
collection of
Latin proverbs. It was the
first such
collection printed,
preceding the
similar Adagia of
Erasmus by two...
- (proverbs) of the day. The
first noted published collection of
aphorisms is
Adagia by Erasmus.
Other important early aphorists were
Baltasar Gracián, François...
- record, in a hand of the
reign of
Henry VI (1422–1461). The word
appears in
Adagia, an
annotated collection of Gr**** and
Latin proverbs,
compiled by Dutch...
- non-expert—any more than the
blind can lead the blind." The
phrase appears in
Adagia, an
annotated collection of Gr**** and
Latin proverbs,
compiled during the...
- and fall into the sea, 'losing both its prey and its life'. It was the
Adagia (1508), the
proverb collection of Erasmus, that
brought the
fables to the...
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Flemish books of hours. A
number of
collections were published,
including Adagia, by the
Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus. The
French writer François Rabelais...
- hospitals.
Three months after announcing its
intention to
acquire the company,
Adagia Partners completed the
purchase of
Schwind eye-tech-solutions in February...
- two
hazards eventually entered proverbial use.
Erasmus recorded it in his
Adagia (1515)
under the
Latin form of
evitata Charybdi in
Scyllam incidi (having...
- the
proverb was not
invented but made po****r 500
years later by Erasmus'
Adagia,
first published in
England around 1500.
Erasmus gave the
saying in both...
