The Collected Aphorisms (Syrens)
ISBN:
9780140389050 (0140389059)
Publish date: November 14th 1994
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
(original review, 2009)The Portuguese etymological dictionary of Jose Pedro Machado informs that the word aphorism derives from the Greek and arrived at the Portuguese language through late Latin aphorismu-, with the meaning of "limitation, brief definition, sentence". It adds that, in time (already...