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Apophthegmata

Apophthegmata is the title of several collections of aphorisms ( adages):

  • Apophthegmata Laconica attributed to Plutarchus
  • Apophthegmata Patrum, sayings of the Desert Fathers
  • Apophthegmata Macarii Magni
  • Apophthegmatum opus by Erasmus of Rotterdam
  • Apophthegmata, Ex Probatis Graecae Latinaeque Linguae Scriptoribus, by Conrad Lycosthenes (ca. 1518-1561)
  • Der Teutschen Scharpfsinnige kluge Sprüch (1626), by Julius Wilhelm Zincgref
  • Ars Apophthegmatica (1655-56), by Georg Philipp Harsdörffer