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312] TO PETER GILLES 35 Neque velim tamen aucupari gratiam, vbi nihil promerear. Quibus 70 hic titulus praefertur ex Aristotele Plinioque, in his mea est collationis inuentio. Porro quae ex Plutarcho Senecaque desumpta testatur inscriptio, in his nihil mihi vindico praeter colligendi explicandique laborem et si quid laudis meretur commoda breuitas. Neque vero me clam est quantum Similium pelagus possit e rerum omnium naturis, e tot disciplinis, e tot poetis, e tot historiographis, e tot oratoribus aggregari. Verum quae dementia sit quod infinitum est velle persequi? Gustum dumtaxat dare voluimus, vt ingenia iuuenum ad his similia conquirenda excitaremus. E Plutarcho complura recensuimus, partim quod is author Graecus est, partim 80 quod in hoc genere sic excellit vt cum hoc nemo vel eloquentissimorum iure conferri queat. E Seneca, quoniam in eo tum aliud agentes versabamur, non ita multa decerpsimus. Non alienum fuerit hunc libellum Adagiis aut, si mauis, Copiae commentariis ceu coronidem adiungere, quod cum illis plurimum habeant affinitatis et ad 85 hanc vel in primis faciant. Epithalamium tuum quo minus et absolutum sit et editum, famulus meus in causa fuit, qui Louanii me quidem imprudente reliquit exemplum. Bene vale. Basileae. Anno a Christo nato m.D. x111. Idibus Octobriis. Si ox 310313. To ULRICH ZASIUS. Munich MS. Lat. 1470, f. 199 v°. Basle. 18 October (1514). [This letter occurs in a manuscript volume of 217 ff. belonging to the Royal Library at Munich. The volume is the work of several hands, the earliest of whom signs himself as a monk at Wessosprunn, in Bavaria, in 1456. The copyist of this letter, also perhaps a monk at Wessosprunn, filled ff. 78-102 and 175-205 in the manuscript with miscellaneous contents : the first series including (f. 94) a copy of a letter dated 23 Dec. 1517; the second containing, besides this letter and Ep. 307, the Julius Excdusus, finished (f. 185 v°.) by the writer on gi Doc, 1518, some letters (ff. 186-95) from the IMust. vir. epist. ad To. Reuchlin, March 1514 and May 1519 (Ep. 300), and some extracts (ff. 202 v°-205) from Erasmus’ Adagia and translations of Lucian and from A. The handwriting is of the early sixteenth century, and thus bears out the inference suggested by these dates. For the character of the copyist’s work see Ep. 307 introd. This letter is printed by Prof. Neff, Udalricus Zasius, pt. 2 (1891), p. 33; not quite accurately. The date is given by the third edition of the Adagia; ch, Ep. 260.] 71. et aliis nonnullis post Plinioque add. 6. 78. este: sita, 85, 6. an: habeat . .. faciat c0. Be: affinitatem ay. 87. sit Be: est ay. qi. titulus] Parabolae siue Similia © written, probably ce. 1517-18, with physicis, pleraque cu Aristotele et Plinio. allusions to the death of Jerome 86. Epithalamium] Petri Aegidii, Busleiden (Ep. 205), and the foundaafterwards included in the Colloquia of tion of the Collegium Trilingue introSept. 1524 (LB. i. 746). It was re- duced. Of. also Ep. 356. D2
