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.
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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.
Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Foreword -- -- Adages II vii 1 to III iii 100 -- -- 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
Following in the tradition of meticulous scholarship for which the Collected Works of Erasmus is widely known, the notes to this volume identify the classical sources and illustrate how Erasmus' reading and thinking developed over twenty-five years.
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Following in the tradition of meticulous scholarship for which the Collected Works of Erasmus is widely known, the notes to this volume identify the classical sources and illustrate how Erasmus' reading and thinking developed over twenty-five years.
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.
more
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.