The Distichs of Cato (Latin: Catonis Disticha, most famously known simply as Cato) is a Latin collection of proverbial wisdom and morality by an unknown...
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Dionysius Cato, 3rd or 4th century AD author of Distichs of Cato Cato (surname) Cato (given name) Jemmy, also known as "Cato", the leader of the Stono...
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spite of the title. A collection of Sayings, some of them translated from Greek. The two surviving collections of proverbs known as the Distichs of Cato and...
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failing to explain the stained glass windows of Canterbury cathedral. Chaucer refers to the Distichs of Cato when discussing the age difference between...
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Ancient literature (redirect from Oldest work of literature)
Enneads Latin: see Late Latin Distichs of Cato Hebrew: Mishnah Pali (Sri Lanka): Dīpavaṃsa Latin: see Late Latin Augustine of Hippo: Confessions, On Christian...
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O.S. The Proverbs of Alfred, 1: A study of the texts. Lund and London, 1942. Arngart, Olaf. The Distichs of Cato and the Proverbs of Alfred. Lund, 1952...
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Hoop rolling (category Games of physical skill)
celeri volvitur orbe trochus." It was also presented as a virtue in the Distichs of Cato, which enjoin youth to "Trocho lude; aleam fuge" ("Play with the hoop...
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English Dicts of Cato is the editorial name given to the Old English language text based on the Latin Distichs of Cato.: 1 It is a collection of approximately...
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many editions, from the end of the fifteenth century. At that time it became standardised as: Distichs of Cato Eclogue of Theodulus Facetus: Liber Faceti...
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John Bury (translator) (category Alumni of the University of Cambridge)
of the Distichs of Cato. "Bury, John (BRY524J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge. Botley, P. "Bury, John". Oxford Dictionary of National...
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drawn from the Distichs of Cato or other collections of Latin aphorisms, followed by memorisation of the approved Latin and English forms of the sentence...
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Loeb Classical Library (category Dual-language series of texts)
Tiberianus. Distichs of Cato. Phoenix. Avianus. Rutilius Claudius Namatianus. Others L060) Volume I. Amphitryon. The Comedy of Asses. The Pot of Gold. The...
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genus of flowering plants from Europe and Asia, belonging to the family Apiaceae and named in Julius Caesar Scaliger's honour. Distichs of Cato Nostradamus...
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composed an extended French hagiography of Thomas Becket, La Vie de Thomas Becket, in AABAAB stanzas. The Distichs of Cato were translated into Anglo-Norman...
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Corderius (category People from the Republic of Geneva)
the edition of 1551, at the workshop of a friend, the printer Jean Frellon. These translations were anonymous, just like his Distichs of Cato. Michael de...
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The Old English Boethius (redirect from Metres of Boethius)
and William of Malmesbury. It influenced Ælfric, the Old English Distichs of Cato, and even Nicholas Trevet's commentary on the Consolatio of c. 1300. Despite...
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Apocolocyntosis, the Distichs of Cato, and most of the Culex to Phaedrus and sifted these texts for further biographical clues. The second part of Herrmann's book...
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The Catonis disticha, also known as Distichs of Cato or simply Cato, (3rd or 4th century), is a Latin collection of proverbial wisdom and morality by an...
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Charles Hoole (category Heads of schools in Yorkshire)
disticha de Moribus, with Dicta septem sapientum Græciæ, 1659. From the Distichs of Cato. Comenius, Johann Amos (1887). Bardeen, Charles William (ed.). Orbis...
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Virgilius Maro Grammaticus (redirect from Vergil of Toulouse)
uncertain. The best-known in his time may have been the Distichs of Cato, often called simply Cato), three Virgils, three Vulcans, Aeneas and Origenes, and...
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Anglo-Norman literature (category History of literature in England)
Catonis (Distichs of Cato), translated by Everard de Kirkham and Elie de Winchester (Stengel, Ausg. u. Abhandlungen); Le Roman de fortune, a summary of Boethius'...
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Herennium (Rhetoric: For Herennius), and other works, too. We can add the Distichs of Cato (Catonis Disticha), Einhard, Hegesippus, Horace, certain texts to be...
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Colard Mansion (category Printers of incunabula)
was published repeatedly between 1532 and 1570. Unknown date: the Distichs of Cato Les Evangiles des quenouilles (anonymous, circa 1480) La doctrine de...
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Shippey, T. A. (1989). The Distichs of Cato and the Durham Proverbs — a Comparison. Fourth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxons, Durham,...
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meant trickster. The prologue begins with a Latin quotation from the Distichs of Cato which it translates as, "Among thy careful business, use sometimes...
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dialectics, classical literature, arithmetic, music. The students studied Distichs of Cato and Ars grammatica by Aelius Donatus. In 1539, the school had twelve...
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Findern Manuscript (category Manuscripts held by the University of Cambridge)
centuries by a series of gentry who were neighbors in the countryside of Derbyshire. A list of its major texts creates a “greatest hits” of fourteenth-century...
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compendium of Caxton’s first run of vernacular poetry, and the texts within appear as follows: John Lydgate, Stans ad Mensam Burgh, Cato’s Distichs John Lydgate...
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English translations of common Latin phrases. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases. This list is a combination of the twenty page-by-page...
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Elogium (literary genre) (category Genres of poetry)
hexameters, iambic hexameters, distichs or in prose. Characteristic of the elogium is the nominative case used for the name of the deceased and not, as it...
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