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41word — Synonyms and related words: Bible oath, Parthian shot, account, acquaintance, adage, address, admission, advice, affidavit, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, altercation, ana, analects, announcement, annunciation, answer, aphorism, apostrophe …
42words of wisdom — Synonyms and related words: adage, ana, analects, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, byword, catchword, collected sayings, current saying, dictate, dictum, distich, epigram, expression, gnome, golden saying, maxim, moral, mot, motto, oracle, phrase,… …
43maxim — I noun adage, aphorism, aphoristic expression, axiom, byword, canon, established principle, expression, gnomic saying, moralism, pithy saying, postulate, praeceptum, precept, principium, principle, proverb, proverbial saying, regula, rule, sage… …
44catchword — noun adage, byword, catch phrase, clew, cliche, clue, colloquialism, common saying, cue word, key, maxim, mot, password, pithy saying, saying, shibboleth, slogan, stock saying, tag, vogue word, watchword associated concepts: trademarks Burton s… …
45lesson — n 1. assignment, homework, exercise, practice, Inf. day s ration; instruction, teaching, studies; lecture, reading, recitation; example, theorem, axiom, truth, proof, dogma; portion, stint, job, duty, obligation, charge, responsibility. 2.… …
46Seven Sages of Greece — The Seven Sages (of Greece) or Seven Wise Men (Greek: οἱ ἑπτά σοφοί, hoi hepta sophoi; c. 620 BC ndash;550 BC) was the title given by ancient Greek tradition to seven early 6th century B.C. philosophers, statesmen and law givers who were renowned …
47apothegm — (n.) pithy saying, 1550s, from Gk. apophthegma terse, pointed saying, lit. something clearly spoken, from apophthengesthai to speak one s opinion plainly, from apo from (see APO (Cf. apo )) + phthengesthai to utter. See APHORISM (Cf …
48mot — n. Bon mot, pithy saying, witty saying, witticism …
49apothegm — [ap′ə them΄] n. [Gr apophthegma, a terse, pointed saying < apophthengesthai < apo , from + phthengesthai, to utter] a short, pithy saying (Ex.: “Brevity is the soul of wit”) apothegmatic [ap΄ə theg mat′ik] adj. apothegmatical …
50Theodorus of Gadara — was a Greek rhetorician of the 1st century BC who founded a rhetorical school in Gadara (present day Jordan), where he taught future Roman emperor Tiberius the art of rhetoric. It was written of Tiberius that:: ...even in his boyhood, his cruel… …
