Erasmusâ Uncollected Adages
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Erasmus numbered 4151 adages in his last and largest Adagiorum Chiliades (1536). More adages appear in his Prolegomena (e.g., âlight as a feather,â âbright as the sunâ) and hundreds more are cited in his commentaries and dedicatory epistles (e.g., âTime shows who truly loves,â âNever think friendly what is said by foeâ). All his life Erasmus liberally seasoned his writings with adages, almost all of which were gathered in the final Chiliades. But there are adages in his correspondence and Opera Omnia not in his great collection, and there are adages dropped from one edition to another. A search for uncollected adages and comparison of these with adages later deleted offer evidence of Erasmusâ effort and of his criteria for gathering and selection.
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Erasmusâ Uncollected Adages
In: Erasmus StudiesSearch for other papers by Willis Goth Regier in
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Abstract
Erasmus numbered 4151 adages in his last and largest Adagiorum Chiliades (1536). More adages appear in his Prolegomena (e.g., âlight as a feather,â âbright as the sunâ) and hundreds more are cited in his commentaries and dedicatory epistles (e.g., âTime shows who truly loves,â âNever think friendly what is said by foeâ). All his life Erasmus liberally seasoned his writings with adages, almost all of which were gathered in the final Chiliades. But there are adages in his correspondence and Opera Omnia not in his great collection, and there are adages dropped from one edition to another. A search for uncollected adages and comparison of these with adages later deleted offer evidence of Erasmusâ effort and of his criteria for gathering and selection.
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| Abstract Views | 664 | 75 | 14 |
| Full Text Views | 54 | 2 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 132 | 5 | 0 |
