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
