Adagia (singular adagium) is the title of an annotated collection of Greek and Latin proverbs, compiled during the Renaissance by Dutch humanist Desiderius...

(proverbs) of the day. The first noted published collection of aphorisms is Adagia by Erasmus. Other important early aphorists were Baltasar Gracián, François...

record, in a hand of the reign of Henry VI (1422–1461). The word appears in Adagia, an annotated collection of Greek and Latin proverbs, compiled by Dutch...

hospitals. Three months after announcing its intention to acquire the company, Adagia Partners completed the purchase of Schwind eye-tech-solutions in February...

two hazards eventually entered proverbial use. Erasmus recorded it in his Adagia (1515) under the Latin form of evitata Charybdi in Scyllam incidi (having...

non-expert—any more than the blind can lead the blind." The phrase appears in Adagia, an annotated collection of Greek and Latin proverbs, compiled during the...

often known as the Adagia, was a collection of Latin proverbs. It was the first such collection printed, preceding the similar Adagia of Erasmus by two...

the proverb was not invented but made popular 500 years later by Erasmus' Adagia, first published in England around 1500. Erasmus gave the saying in both...

Greek: Ἐν οἴνῳ ἀλήθεια, romanized: En oinō alētheia, is found in Erasmus' Adagia, I.vii.17. Pliny the Elder's Naturalis historia contains an early allusion...

Flemish books of hours. A number of collections were published, including Adagia, by the Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus. The French writer François Rabelais...