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.
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[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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S.
SAcrifice to God, ought not to bee ouersumptuous.
2.
Sacrificyng meate & drynke.
30
Sapiene and learned prin∣ces.
43.
Sapience diffined.
47.
Sapience cometh not by for∣tune.
62.
Sapient, nothyng more then manne.
71.
Sapient menne haue al thyn∣ges.
91.
Samos n ysle in the sea.
133.
Satiri.
141
Sacrifice, whiche are best.
293
Science the only good thyng of the worlde.
14.
Scholemaisters & their office.
21
Scoldyng of brohelles.
24.
Scipio a noble capitaine in Roome.
269.
Scylla and Charibis.
119.321.
Seruaūtes how to be bought.
8
Sextarius.
18.
Seneca.
ii.
Secte of the Ciniques.
12.
Secrete hydynge an ciuill thyng. &c.
86.
Serapis or Apis.
141.
Sensualitee bryngeth wret∣chednesse.
150.
Senerus Cassius
215.
Sertorius.
284.285.
Sextus Iulius Frontinus.
279.
Seruilia the mother of Mar∣cus.
322.
Shame is it none to learne.
37.
Shepe with golden flyces wer in Colchos.
109.
Sirenes, what thei were.
40.
Sinopa a citee in Pontus.
68.
Sillogisme, what it is.
90.95.
Sinopa a baren region.
11.
Sicknesse putteth vs in remē∣braunce not to be proude.
21.
Silenus the fosterfather of Bacchus.
22.
Slender fare is to muche for eiuill geastes.
.
Slepe is an ymage of death.
203.
Small varyaunces growe to scabbes.
66.
Sophistes what thei are.
14.
Socrates refused to take gif∣tes.
18.
Socrates made stone ymages.
19
Socrates had two wyues at once.
24.
Socrates dyed in perfite se∣curitee.
1.
Socrates, wherunto he was enclined.
35.
Socrates familyer gooste.
ibi.
Socrates thought it eiuil dooē to teache for moneye.
ibi.
Solle of manne, how it pas∣seth awaye.
36.
Solle of manne, what it is.
ibi.
Solle of manne shall retorne agayne.
37.
Socrates had a vision at his death.
39.
Sophocles his verses.
66.

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Solle and bodye, what thei differ.
89.
Sophisticacions are not to bee soyled.
94.
Sostratus an Alexandrine.
237.
Soldyours aunswers to Au∣gustus.
247.248.
Sol omnia uidet ac reuelat.
309.
Spuesippus.
158.
Sphinx the monstre.
92.309.
State of blisfulnesse.
41.
Staige to serue, what it is.
78.
Stones hurled at a gibette.
105.
Stroumpettes.
140.
Sthemus Lorde of the Ma∣mertines.
281.
Strabo.
285.
Supersticion of olde tyme.
101.
Supersticious feare that ma∣ny folkes haue.
112.
Suppositii partus.
139.
Suyceners.
276.
Sulpitius a Tribune.
277.
Sweete sauoures more meete for women then for menne.
28.
Sweete sauoures defended by Aristippus.
68.
Swoerde of leade, out of an iuereye sheath.
145.
Sweete sauoures, what thei dooe.
147.
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