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PROVERB (See also:Lat. proverbium, from See also:pro, forth, publicly, verbum, word; the See also:Greek See also:equivalent is irapolµia, from 7rapa, alongside, and oiµos, way, road, i.e. a wayside saying; Ger. Sprichwort) , a See also:form of folk-literature, or its later See also:imitation, expressing, in the form of a See also:simple, homely See also:sentence, a pungent See also:criticism of See also:life. Many See also:definitions have been attempted of a " proverb," of which none has met with universal See also:acceptance. J. See also:Howell's (d. 1666) three essentials, " shortness, sense and See also:salt," omit the See also:chief characteristic, popularity or See also:general acceptance, and the See also:definition of See also:Erasmus—Celebre dictum scita quapiam novitate insigne—suits a See also:good proverb rather than See also:proverbs in general. See also:Lord See also:Russell's " The See also:wisdom of many and the wit of one " is See also:familiar. For a general survey of the subject of proverbs, See also:Archbishop See also:Trench's Proverbs and their Lessons (new ed., 1905, by A. Smythe-See also:Palmer, with additions and notes) is useful; it contains a fairly comprehensive bibliography, See also:ancient and See also:modern. See also:Bohn's See also:Hand-See also:book of Proverbs, and Polyglot of See also:Foreign Proverbs (1857), based on 1 The viguerie was the See also:jurisdiction of a viguier, i.e. " See also:vicar," a name given at various times and places in the See also:south of See also:France to very different feudal officials. The viguerie in the 17th and 18th centuries as an administrative subdivision in See also:Provence corresponded to the prev8te elsewhere.the collections of See also:John See also:Ray (167o) and See also:David See also:Ferguson (1641), are very full.

V. Stuckey Lean's Collectanea (5 vols.) 1902 is a storehouse of See also:

English proverbs, classified in various ways; Notes and Queries, 9th See also:series (1898), vol. ii., contains a bibliography of English See also:works. The See also:principal foreign works are G. Strafforello, La Sapienza del mondo (3 vols., 1883) and Reinsberg and Dtiringsfeld, See also:Die Sprichworter der germanisclzen and romanischen Sprachen (2 vols., 1872–1875). There are many popular handbooks giving full collections of proverbs, English and foreign.

End of Article: PROVERB (Lat. proverbium, from pro, forth, publicly, verbum, word; the Greek equivalent is irapolµia, from 7rapa, alongside, and oiµos, way, road, i.e. a wayside saying; Ger. Sprichwort)

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