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Apophthegmes that is to saie, prompte, quicke, wittie and sentencious saiynges, of certain emperours, kynges, capitaines, philosophiers and oratours, aswell Grekes, as Romaines, bothe veraye pleasaunt [et] profitable to reade, partely for all maner of persones, [et] especially gentlemen. First gathered and compiled in Latine by the ryght famous clerke Maister Erasmus of Roterodame. And now translated into Englyshe by Nicolas Vdall.

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Apophthegmes that is to saie, prompte, quicke, wittie and sentencious saiynges, of certain emperours, kynges, capitaines, philosophiers and oratours, aswell Grekes, as Romaines, bothe veraye pleasaunt [et] profitable to reade, partely for all maner of persones, [et] especially gentlemen. First gathered and compiled in Latine by the ryght famous clerke Maister Erasmus of Roterodame. And now translated into Englyshe by Nicolas Vdall.
Author
Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.
Publication
[London] :: Excusum typis Ricardi Grafton,
1542 [September] Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.
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Aphorisms and apothegms.
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"Apophthegmes that is to saie, prompte, quicke, wittie and sentencious saiynges, of certain emperours, kynges, capitaines, philosophiers and oratours, aswell Grekes, as Romaines, bothe veraye pleasaunt [et] profitable to reade, partely for all maner of persones, [et] especially gentlemen. First gathered and compiled in Latine by the ryght famous clerke Maister Erasmus of Roterodame. And now translated into Englyshe by Nicolas Vdall." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00316.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 31, 2025.

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MAny mēne geue greater waiges to their horse∣kepers, then to the teachers of their children.
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Many pretend the contempt•• of delicates. &c.
55.5••
Many good thynges are rei••∣cted because of the lewde persons that vse theim.
56••
Manne is moste sapiente and moste folyshe.
7••.
Mannes witte apte to all thynges.
ibi••
Mathematici, what thei wer.
76••
Mastre that is wise, wilbe aduised by his seruaūt.
82.88.
Macedonians conquered Grece.
ibi.
Manne, what it is.
82.
Mannes life standeth not in carnall pleasures.
104.
Manne of all creatures th•• moste miser.
108.
Manes the seruaunt of Dio∣genes
127.
Many rebuke in others, yt the•• emēde not theimselues.
129.130

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Maisters geuē to viciousnesse what thei dooe.
148.
Macedonians wer plain fe∣loes.
167.
Machaetes wrongfully con∣demned of Philippus.
173.
Macedonie was euer to litle for Alexander.
200.
Manacyng of greate mēne.
268.
Mamertines a people in Si∣cilie.
281.
Magn{us} the surname of Pom∣peius.
282.
Manly herte of Pompeius.
286.291.
Many mēne punyshe in others yt thei offēde in theimselues.
7
Marcellinus put to silence by Pompeius.
287.
Marcus Tu••lius Cicero.
203.
Marcus Aemilius Scaur{us}
305.
Marcus Tullius would not forsake his surname.
305.
Marcus Tullius his greate care and studie.
312.
Marcus Caelius an orato••r.
318
Marcus Crass{us} an oratour.
324.
Marcus Appius mocked of Cicero.
329.
Marcus Aquili{us} called of Ci∣cero Adrastus.
329.
Meate and drynke muste bee taken with reason.
3.
Mecenas of Roome.
5.
Medleyng to muche in other mennes matiers.
10.
Menne that desire to liue, muste frame. &c.
14.
Menne that are good, dooe suf∣fre slaunders gladly.
23.
Mery saiynges of Socrates.
24. 25.35.
Men wherof thei shuld smell.
28
Merie speakyng of Aristip∣pus.
46.
Measure is in all thynges a treasure.
50.
Menne maye iustely refuse their soonnes if. &c.
65.
Menne should haue no vayne communicacion
72••
Menne take peynes in vayne thynges.
76.
Menne should not put foorth emptie hāds to their frēdes.
79
Mēnes woordes declare their myndes.
81.
Menne, should weare sweete floures in their bosomes, ra∣ther then on their cappes.
96.
Menne there are but a fewe.
98. 99. 135.
Megara, a toune in the coun∣tree of Attica.
98.
Megarians were rechelesse kepers of their children.
ibi.
Medecine for good appetite.
116
Merie saiynges of Diogenes
125. 138. 139. 149.
Mercifulnesse of Antigon{us}.
214.
Menne taken prysoners in warre, how thei wer vsed.
223.
Metellus withstode Caesar from takyng moneye out of the treasourie.
268.277.307.
Menne, be thei ne••er so high are with famyne made tame enough.
287.
Menillus a capitaine.
298.
Miserable is the pouertee of the mynde.
45.
Myce howe thei resorted to Diogenes his tubbe.
97.
Midias, howe Diogenes hād∣leed hym.
99.
Miserie, what thyng is moste

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miserable in this world.
118.126.
Miserie of warre.
166.
Mise••us a circe.
184.
Mithridates kyng of Pon∣r••s.
218.
Minerus by the ficciō of the poe••es a perpetual virgin.
342
Moderat•• ••xercitaciōs of the bodie.
35.
Money bryngeth a lyuyng.
45.
Money, the right vse of it.
51.
Moral philosophie, what it pro¦fited the philosophiers.
63.
Diogenes, howe he was mocked.
126.
Mod••raciō of Alexāder.
191.196
Moderacion of Pompeius.
284.
Myndu•• •• tou••e in Asia.
130.
〈◊〉〈◊〉 of manne, wherin it is sh••wed.
145.
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