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[1515 supersunt. 5o Encomium Luciani. mereue. Si quid 47. sexingenta MS. 43. Glareanus] Though teaching publicly at Basle with the title of Professor, Glareanus was still only a Master ; and the authorities had not yet determined whether he should be allotted a seat among the Doctors at University assemblies. Resenting a position among the Masters Glareanus adopted this theatrical way of forcing a decision ; ef. Schreiber’s life, pp. 23,4. In addition to the authorities there quoted the following account is given by Myconius in his copy of the Moria (Ep. 394 introd.). ‘Memini tamen me audiuisse a iureconsultis non infimi subsellii, vt sibi videbantur, dum publice disputatum est Basileae a quodam bacculario theologo vtrum Parua Logicalia essent vtilia, dumque Glareani mei equus cui insidebat tedio ex tali disputatione affectus (aulam enim collegii magni eques Glareanus inscenderat) foedissime cacaret, assertum neminem bonum perfectumque iureconsultum fore nisi qui sophisticam calleret ad ynguem, Quid ergo dicent philosophi? Anno 15. f° H2, against the words asininam philosophi. Cf. also Epp. 463, 529, and VE. 141. 44. Paruorum . . . Logicalium] More than one of the regular textbooks of logic bore this title. One was the work of Marsilius of Inghen, an exRector of Paris, who in 1386 became the first Rector and ‘Founder’ of Heidelberg University (see Rashdall, Universities, i. 44% and ii. 248); for another see Ep. 447. 98 n. 47. Moriae] The first Froben edition is of March 1515; not May, as I have 54. carceribus LB. : cautibus MS. wrongly given twice in Ep. 222 introd. sexingenta] This form, which is modelled on septingenta, &c., occurs sometimes in Renaissance Latin ; e. g. in a letter of Boniface Amerbach, dated 1519, Basle MS. D. IV. 18. 350. The corruption in LB. enhances the rapidity of the demand, but is quite without foundation. Even 1,200 copies in a month would be a remarkable sale, the spring fair at Frankfort notwithstanding. 1 48. denuo] Froben’s second edition was issued without date, but with a new title page : IoANNES FROBENIVS LeororI. ‘Habes iterum Morias Encomium..., and on the v° a list of contents, to which was added Ep. 337. It was not actually undertaken till 1516; see Ep. 410. 49. Scarabeus] This and the Sileni Alcibiadis are two of the Adagia, Nos, 2601 and 2201, They were printed separately by Froben in 1517; the Silent in April, the Scarabeus in May. Cf. Ep. 575. Gryllus] This and the works that follow were not printed by Froben with any of Erasmus’ writings. In Sept. 1516 (Ep. 473) Beatus had completed his translation of the Gryllus, but I cannot find that it was ever printed ; he was still proposing then to attach it to the Moria. 50. Lucubrationes] Froben did not print these till July 1518: perhaps because Schürer had an edition now in hand, which appeared in Sept. ; see Epp. 93 introd. and 342. 28 n. 53. metae] of Seneca.
