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Adagia

Adagia is the title of an annotated collection of Greek and Latin proverbs, compiled during the Renaissance by Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus. Erasmus' collection of proverbs is "one of the most monumental ... ever assembled" .


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“He that gives quickly gives twice.”

Adagia (1508)

Desiderius Erasmus photo

“In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”
In regione caecorum rex est luscus.

Adagia (first published 1500, with numerous expanded editions through 1536), III, IV, 96
Also in the same passage of the Adagia is a variant: Inter caecos regnat strabus (Among the blind, the squinter rules).

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