1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Proverbs 25:1 These are also parables of Solomon, which the men of Ezechias, king of Juda, copied out.

These. Solomon wrote 3,000, and we have only 915 verses extant. (Calmet) --- The rest perhaps shewed his genius, but were less useful. (Tostat. in 3 Kings 4:9.) --- Men. Isaias, Sobna, etc. (Calmet) --- Out of other records, (Menochius) or "translated" into a language better understood. (Denis the Carthusian) (Bayn.)