The Old English Dicts of Cato is the editorial name given to the Old English language text based on the Latin Distichs of Cato.[1]: 1 It is a collection of approximately 80 prose proverbs, the exact number varying between each of the three manuscript versions.[1]: 34 These can be found in MS Cambridge, Trinity College, R.9.17, MS British Library, Cotton Vespasian D.xiv[2] and MS British Library, Cotton Julius A.ii[3] respectively.[1]: 4 [4]
^ abcCox, R. S. (1972). "The Old English Dicts of Cato". Anglia. 1972 (90): 1–42. doi:10.1515/angl.1972.1972.90.1.
^"Cotton MS Vespasian D XIV". British Library Digitised Manuscripts. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
^"Cotton MS Julius A II". British Library Digitised Manuscripts. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
^Treharne, Elaine M. (2003). "The Form and Function of the Twelfth-Century Old English "Dicts of Cato"". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 102 (4): 465–485. JSTOR 27712374.
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