What is another word for "proverbial"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "proverbial": adage, admitted, aphorism, aphoristic, apophthegm, apothegm, assumption, axiom, axiomatic, belief, byword, common, commonplace, conclusion, dictum, fact, faith, first, formula, gnomic, golden, idea, judgment, maxim, moral, mot, motto, phylacteric, phylactery, postulate, precept, principia, principle, profession, protasis, proverb, reflection, rule, sage, saw.

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