APOPHTHEGM

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) A short and sententious speech or saying. The apophthegms of the ancients are generally sentences expre ing some truth of universal application in philosophy, the conduct of life, . . Such are Plutarch's " Apophthegm at a Laconic a," a collection of the brief and pointed sayings for which the Lace daemon i ans were famous. APOPHYGE. {Gr.,sigDi{yingJlight, or refuge.) In Architecture, that part of a column between the upper fillet which rests on the base and the cylindrical part of the shaft of a column, usually moulded into a hollow or cavetto, out of which the column seems as it were to fly or shoot upward a. [s. 79]