Note 2097 — Chapter XXXIV · (continued 3)
E. M. Lamond translation
The saying appears in this shape in Reisch’s “Margarita philosophica,” Argentorati, 1508. See Nestle, “Jahrb. f. deut. Theol.,” 1877, p. 668. In fact it is there described as a common “proverbium inter theologos.” Another later form ran: “Si Lyra non lyrasset, totus mundus delyrasset.”