Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536. Adagia
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- Wikipedia, 22 November 2016(Adagia; annotated collection of Greek and Latin proverbs compiled by Erasmus; the first edition was titled Collectanea adagiorum, published in Paris in 1500; collection expanded in 1508 (Adagiorum chiliades); continued to expand until Erasmus's death in 1536; final total = 4151 entries)
- Adagiorum Chiliades Des. Erasmi Roterodami, M. D. XLVI 1546
- RLIN, Apr. 20, 2006(title usage: Adagia; Adagia, id est, Proverbiorum, paroemiarum et parabolarum omnium, quae apud Graecos, Latinos, Hebraeos, Arabes, &c. in usu fuerunt; Adagia quaecumque ad hanc diem exierunt; Adagiorum chiliades Des. Erasmi Roterodami; Adagiorum Chiliades quatuor cum sesquicenturia; Adagiorum D. Erasmi Roterdami epitome; Adagiorum Des. Erasmi Roterodami chiliades quatuor cum sesquicenturia; Adagiorum epitome; Adagiorum opus D. Erasmi Roterodami per eundem exquisitissima cura recognitum & locupletatum; Adagiorum opus Des. Erasmi Roterodami; Apophthegmatum ex optimis utriusque linguae scriptoribus; Chiliades adagiorum; Collectanea adagiorum veterum; Des. Erasmi Roterodami Adagiorum chiliades iuxta locos communes digestae; Des. Erasmi Roterodami Adagiorum chiliades quatuor cum sesquicenturia; Desid. Erasmi Roterodami Adagiorum chiliades iuxta locos communes digestae; Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami Adagiorum epitome recognita; Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami Apophthegmatum; Desyderii Herasmi Roterdami veterum maxime atque insignium paroemiarum id est adagiorum collectanea; Erasmi Roterodami Adagiorum chiliades tres, ac centuriae fere totidem; Erasmi Roterodami Germaniae decoris, Adagiorum chiliades tres, ac centuriae fere totidem)
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Adagia (singular adagium) is the title of an annotated collection of Greek and Latin proverbs, compiled during the Renaissance by Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus. Erasmus' repository of proverbs is "one of the most monumental ... ever assembled" (Speroni, 1964, p. 1). The first edition, titled Collectanea Adagiorum, was published in Paris in 1500, in a slim quarto of around eight hundred entries. By 1508, after his stay in Italy, Erasmus had expanded the collection (now called Adagiorum chiliades tres or "Three thousands of proverbs") to over 3,000 items, many accompanied by richly annotated commentaries, some of which were brief essays on political and moral topics. The work continued to expand right up to the author's death in 1536 (to a final total of 4,151 entries), confirming the fruit of Erasmus' vast reading in ancient literature.
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