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English translation: apothegm


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Spanish term or phrase:apotegma
English translation:apothegm
Entered by: Victor Hernandez Ulloa
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18:18 May 11, 2005
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Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
Spanish term or phrase: apotegma
In a speech quoting a phrase by Kent, sapere aude. (The phrase is the apotegma)
Victor Hernandez Ulloa
Local time: 00:25
apothegm
Explanation:
Suerte! :}
a'-po-theem, Gk. "something clearly spoken". Also sp. apophthegm. apothegma.
One of several terms describing short, pithy sayings. ...
humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/A/apothegm.htm
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apothegm


Explanation:
Suerte! :}
a'-po-theem, Gk. "something clearly spoken". Also sp. apophthegm. apothegma.
One of several terms describing short, pithy sayings. ...
humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/A/apothegm.htm

RebeW
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thanks a lot

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agree  Gabriela Rodriguez
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agree  MPGS: :)
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apothegm


Explanation:
apothegm, also apophthegm \AP-uh-them\, noun:
A short, witty, and instructive saying.

"Nineteen Eighty-four" the most contemporary novel of this year and who knows of how many past and to come, is a great examination into and dramatization of Lord Acton's famous apothegm, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
--Mark Schorer, "When Newspeak Was New," New York Times, October 6, 1996

The rare talent of compressing a mass of profound thought into an apophthegm.
--Henry Hart Milman, The History of Latin Christianity

The admirable Hebrew apophthegm, Learn to say I do not know.
--Frederic Farrar, Life of St. Paul



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agree  Gabriela Rodriguez
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