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Updated: September 14, 2025
He translated part of the Apophthegms of Erasmus, and assisted in making the English version of his Paraphrase of the New Testament. Translator. He translated the Æthiopian History of Heliodorus 1566; also from Ovid. Critic and biographer, b. in Massachusetts, was American Consul at Glasgow and Leith.
The friends used to call Luther's speeches their 'table-spice. His topics varied according to circumstances and the occasion things spiritual and temporal; questions of faith and conduct; the works of God and the deeds of man; events past and present; hints and short practical suggestions for ecclesiastical life and office; and apophthegms of worldly wisdom; all enriched with proverbs of every kind and German rhymes, which Luther had a great aptitude in composing.
As soon as writing came into fashion, wise men, or those who fancied themselves such, would naturally endeavour to increase the number of those established and respected maxims, and to express their own sense of what was either proper or improper conduct, sometimes in the more artificial form of apologues, like what are called the fables of Aesop; and sometimes in the more simple one of apophthegms or wise sayings, like the proverbs of Solomon, the verses of Theognis and Phocyllides, and some part of the works of Hesiod.
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