Cosmas of Prague

Cosmas of Prague (Czech: Kosmas Pražský; Latin: Cosmas Decanus; c. 1045 – October 21, 1125) was a priest, writer and historian.

Quotes

• Certum est enim, longos esse crines omnibus sed breves sensus mulieribus.
  • They all have long hair, to be sure, but women are short on sense.
  • Chronica Boemorum, bk. 1, ch. 4 (tr. Lisa Wolverton, 2009)
  • Variants: 'set' for 'sed'

• Nam et escae execrantur quae saepius sumuntur.
  • For foods that are eaten more often are detestable.
  • Chronica Boemorum, bk. 1, ch. 15 (tr. Lisa Wolverton, 2009)

See also

• Duke Krok
• Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia

External links

• Pavel Jozef Šafárik and František Palacký (eds.) Die Ältesten Denkmäler der Böhmischen Sprache (Prague, 1840), p. 84
• Georgius Heinricus Pertz (ed.) Monumenta Germaniae Historica, vol. 9 (Hanover, 1851), p. 34
• Jan Bažant, Nina Bažantová and Frances Starn (eds.) The Czech Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Duke UP, 2010), ch. 1, p. 22
• Gyula Paczolay (ed.) European Proverbs in 55 Languages, with Equivalents in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese (Veszprém, 1997), p. 413
• Lisa Wolverton (tr.) The Chronicle of the Czechs (CUA Press, 2009), p. 41