The Apophthegms of the Ancients, Vol. 1 of 2: Being an Historical Collection of the Most Celebrated, Elegant, Pithy and Prudential Sayings of All the Illustrious Personages of Antiquity —— Being an Historical Collection of the Most Celebrated, Elegant, Pithy and Prudential Sayings of All the Illustrious Personages of Antiquity

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ISBN: 9781333021207 出版年：2018 页码：339 Desiderius Erasmus Forgotten Books

How far this tafie prevailed among the ancients, what regard and veneration they paid to the 'wife fayings of their princes, philofophers, and other great men, ap pears abundantly from their writings. Ju venal fays, that 712191a-sawév is a precept which dropt down from heaven.' This faying of Chilo, together with two more of that great philofopher's precepts, were, with much ceremony, confecrated to A pollo, and fet up in his temple at Del phos. The Greeks engraved the more.