Apophthegmata, the plural of apophthegm (also spelled apothegm), a pithy maxim, is the abbreviated title of several collections of aphorisms, adages, maxims, or proverbs, specifically:
Apophthegmata of Delphi Apophthegmata Laconica attributed to Plutarchus Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the [Christian Desert] Fathers) Apophthegmata Macarii Magni Apophthegmatum Opus of Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus Apophthegmata, ex Probatis Graecae Latinaeque Linguae Scriptoribus of Conrad Lycosthenes (circa 1518-61) Ars Apophthegmatica (1655-6) of Georg Philipp Harsdörffer Der Teutschen Scharpfsinnige kluge Sprüch (1626) of Julius Wilhelm Zincgref
It may also denominate a literary genre.