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SES a 46 LETTERS OF ERASMUS [1523-4 mercedem nisi depulso morbo. Sed quem sponsorem dabit non recursurum vbi fuerit depulsus? Denique quis praestabit, ne morbum sic expellat vt simul et vitam ? Non arbitror tutum hoc corpusculum ignoto medico committere. Nactus sum hic iuuenem quendam 5 Ioannem Antoninum Cassouiensem, natione Hungarum, eleganter eruditum, moribus candidissimis et perquam amoenis, qui mihi praeter alia remedia dedit leonem astrologicum, vnde bibo. His quae sapiunt magiam an aliquid tribuendum sit nescio; certe dies iam complures mitius me tractat calculus, siue hoc vino mutato, siue To aliis remediis, siue leoni debeo. Nec me fugit vetus prouerbium, iuuenem tonsorem, medicum senem accersendum esse. Verum in Antonino meo nihil iuuenile video praeter faciem ; mores et eruditio suam habent caniciem, quum aetate non sit maior annis viginti quinque, Graece Latineque doctus, mei sic obseruans yt, si filius 15 esset, non posset religiosius, Cura vt quam bellissime valeas, ornatissime Botzeme, cum optima sodalitate, cum Gratiis ac Musis tuis ; inter quas tibi contingat diu ac suauiter viuere. Salutem dices nominatim meis verbis viro citra supercilium erudito, Michaeli Hymelbergio, simulque Ioanni Vannio 20 concionatori, virtuti pietatique natis fratribus Ambrosio Thomaeque Blaureris, cuique sequundum Burgundiense vinum plurimum debeo, Ioanni Menlishouero medico, homini, mea sententia, non minus humano quam erudito. Ornatissimo praesuli nec tu me desines commendare, nec ego desinam fausta laetaque omnia deprecari, et quic25 quid hominis eximia virtus promeretur. Basileae, tertio Calend. Febru. An. a Christo nato M.D. XXIII. I. Comprnpivm VITAE ERASMI. Vita Erasmi p. 9. (Basle. J Lond. init.: LB. i. init. (c. 2 April 1524.) [This document was first published by Paul Merula, Professor of History in Leiden University, as Vita Des. Erasmi Roterodami ex ipsius manu fideliter repraesentata, Leiden, Th. Basson, 1607 (0'), at the end of a letter from Erasmus to Goclen, dated from Basle, 2 April 1524; and was printed again after Merula’s death by Peter Scriverius, Professor of Jurisprudence in the University, with the title Magni Des. Erasmi Roterodami Vita, Leiden, G. Basson, 16r5 (0?). It exists also in manuscript in the Imperial Library at Vienna (No. 9058) ; and has been printed from that source in Erasmiani Gymnasii Programma, Rotterdam, 1894, by Dr. J. B. Kan, who gives, however, no account of the manuscript. Dr. Mengik, Custos of the Imperial Library, who has kindly confirmed for me some of Dr. Kan’s readings, places it in the middle of the sixteenth century. Merula’s text, printed from Erasmus’s original autograph, has equal authority with this manuscript (a), which has a few obvious blunders, For the authenticity of the Compendium see Appendix r.] 20. virtuti . . . 21 Blaureris add. B. 21. sequundum , .. vinum 0. 6. 26. M.D.XXIII a : M.D.XXIMI Y.
