Apophthegmata

Apophthegmata, the plural of apophthegm (also spelled apothegm), a pithy maxim, is the abbreviated title of several collections of aphorisms, adages, maxims, or proverbs, specifically:

• Apophthegmata of Delphi
• Apophthegmata Laconica attributed to Plutarchus
• Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the [Christian Desert] Fathers)
• Apophthegmata Macarii Magni
• Apophthegmatum Opus of Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
• Apophthegmata, ex Probatis Graecae Latinaeque Linguae Scriptoribus of Conrad Lycosthenes (circa 1518-61)
• Ars Apophthegmatica (1655-6) of Georg Philipp Harsdörffer
• Der Teutschen Scharpfsinnige kluge Sprüch (1626) of Julius Wilhelm Zincgref

It may also denominate, scire licet, a literary genre.

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