Pirke Aboth (i.e. sayings of the Fathers), the name given to a collection of aphorisms in the manner of Jesus the Son of Sirach by 60 doctors learned in the Jewish law, representative of their teaching, and giving the gist of it; they inculcate the importance of familiarity with the words of the Law.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Pirithous * Pirna