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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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