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.

Title

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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Contents

• title page
• NICOLAS VDALL VNTO the gentle and honeste herted readers well to fare.
• THE PREFACE OF DE∣syderius Erasmus of Rotero∣dame unto a dukes soonne of his countree
• ¶ A preamble of the enterpreter vnto the saiynges of SOCRATES.
• book - 1
  • The saiynges of SOCRATES.
  • THE SAIYNGES OF ARISTIPPVS.
  • THE SAIYNGES OF DIOGE∣NES THE CYNIKE
• THE II. BOOKE.
  • THE SAIYNGES OF PHI∣LIPPVS KYNG OF MACEDONIE.
  • THE SAIYNGES OF ALE∣XANDER THE GREATE.
  • THE SAIYNGES OF AN∣TIGONVS THE FIRST KYNG OF THE MA∣CEDONIANS
  • THE SAIYNGES OF AVGVSTVS CAESAR.
  • THE SAIYNGES OF IV∣LIVS CAESAR.
  • THE SAIYNGES OF POMPEIVS THE GREATE.
  • THE SAIYNGES OF PHOCION
  • THE SAIYNGES OF MAR∣CVS TVLLIVS CICERO.
  • THE SAIYNGES OF DE∣MOSTHENES THE ORATOVR.
• The Table.
  • part - A
  • part - B
  • part - C
  • part - D
  • part - E
  • part - F
  • part - G
  • part - H
  • part - I
  • part - K
  • part - L
  • part - M
  • part - N
  • part - O
  • part - P
  • part - Q
  • part - R
  • part - S
  • part - T
  • part - V
  • part - W
  • part - X
  • part - Y
  • part - Z
• colophon