The Trojans became wise too late ; they only came to their senses, when their city was on the eve of being taken. Exhausted by a war of ten years, they then began to consult about restoring Helen, on whose account the contest had been undertaken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The adage is applied to persons, who do not see the advantage of any measure or precaution until it is too late to adopt it, and is similar to, “when the steed is stolen, we shut the stable door,” and to the following of the Italians, and the French, ” Serrar la stalla quando s’ han perduti i buovi.” “II est tems de fermer l\u2019etable quand les chevaux en sont alle.\u201d
(editorial – lightly edited from<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proverbs, By Robert Bland, M.D. F.S.A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vol 1 1814 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Trojans became wise too late ; they only came to their senses, when their city was on the eve of being taken. Exhausted by a war of ten years, they then began to consult about restoring Helen, on whose account the contest had been undertaken. The adage is applied to persons, who do not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-erasmus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iterudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iterudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iterudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iterudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iterudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iterudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/www.iterudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iterudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iterudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iterudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Chiefly Taken From The Adagia Of Erasmus, With Explanations;
And Further Illustrated By Corresponding Examples From The Spanish, Italian, French & English Languages.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve been guilty of just copy and pasting without attribution – anything in the “Erasmus” category is from the 1814 book by Robert Bland)<\/p>\n\n\n\n