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 12, 2025.

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BAttail betwene Alexan∣der and Darius.
186.
Beneficiall to a whole multi∣tude.
4.
Bettre of byrth yt a childe is, the better ought his bryng∣yng vp to bee
9.
Betwene a beaste and a man of brutishe condicions, there is no difference
11.
Bettre to dye an innocent, thē an offender.
21
Beautie of the mynde is to be loed.
31
Begoonne wel, is halfe done.
31
Bettre to begge then to bee without learnyng.
46
Bettre ye money be cast awaye thn māne for moneys sake.
58
Beetes is an herbe called in latin Beta.
106.
Beaste of many heddes is the people.
109.38.
Beastes yt are most harmful.
118.
Bealyes of gluttons. &c.
119.
Best tyme to wedde a wife.
124
Beautyfull strumpettes are lyke to dedly oyson.
137.
Beneficence of Philippus.
170
Beneuolence how it should be purchased.
179.
Beardes are an hinderaunce in battaill.
185.
Bedde of a persone that is in de. &c.
242.
Bias receiued a talent of An∣tigonus.
223.
Biddelles what their officies is.
240.
Blysse of heauen, wherby it is obteyned.
96.
Blushing is a tokē of vertue.
125
Bondeseruaunte to the plea∣sures of the bodye.
4.
Boldnesse and trust on a man∣nes

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well dooyng.
26.
Bostyng of a mannes selfe is a foolyshe thyng.
53
Boste of drynkyng is vayne.
ibi
Bondeseruauntes of glorie.
102.
Bondeseruauntes, howe thei are called in Greke.
148.
Bountie of Alexander.
184.195.
Bountie and largesse is befal∣lyng for kynges.
215
Bosome sermons & oraciōs.
216.
Breach of loue betwene Aes∣hines and Aristippus.
66.
Brasidas a Capitaine of the Lacedemonians.
232.
Brundusium a to••••e in the kyngdome of Naples.
268.
Brutus and Cassius slewe Iu∣lius Caesar.
270.
Buiriyng of Diogenes.
82.
Buriyng of the Iewes.
ibi.
Buiriyng is not to be cared for (saied Diogenes.)
36.
Bucephalus and horsse.
200.276.
Busyris a kyng of Egypte.
326.
Byzāciū a citie of Thracia.
294
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