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APOPHTHEGM (from the Gr. It rogOey ya)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 195 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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APOPHTHEGM (from the Gr. It rogOey ya)  , a See also:short and pointed utterance . The usual spelling up to See also:Johnson's See also:day was apothegm, which See also:Webster and See also:Worcester still prefer; it indicates the See also:pronunciation—i.e . " apothem "—better than the other, which, however, is more usual in See also:England and follows the derivation . Such sententious remarks as " Knowledge is See also:Power " are apophthegms . They become " See also:proverbs " by See also:age and See also:acceptance . See also:Plutarch made a famous collection in his Apophthegmata Laconica .

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