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Desiderius Erasmus

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In regione caecorum rex est luscus.
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In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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Adagia (first published 1500, with numerous expanded editions through 1536), III, IV, 96
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Also in the same passage of the Adagia is a variant: Inter caecos regnat strabus (Among the blind, the squinter rules).

 
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