Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim
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Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (2 April 1719 – 18 February 1803) was a German poet of the Enlightenment.
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Quotes
[edit]- Was von mir, ein Esel spricht,
Das acht’ ich nicht.- What an ass may say of me,
that I do not heed. - Fabeln (Berlin, 1756), p. 9, Fab. 4 ("Der Lӧwe u. der Fuchs")
- Reported in: Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 2988
- Cf. Phaedrus, The Dying Lion to the Ass that kicked him
- What an ass may say of me,
