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apophthegm

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apophthegm

Short, pithy, and instructive saying, intended to convey an important truth to the hearer. An example is: ‘We ask advice, but we mean approbation’.

Plutarch made a collection called The Apophthegms of Kings and Generals; he also collected the apophthegms of the Lacedaemonians in Laconica. Cicero called them salinae, ‘salt pits’.

Francis Bacon formed a collection under the title Apophthegmes New and Old 1625.



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At the same time, he addressed complex issues by example or by giving an apophthegm or a maxim; a "word," resembling the spiritual advice or comment given by the earliest desert fathers.
Practical and mystical: Patriarch Kyrillos VI (1959-1971) by van Doorn-Harder, Nelly / Currents in Theology and Mission
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