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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, asser¬
tum neminem bonum perfectumque
iureconsultum fore nisi qui sophisti¬
cam 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 ex¬
Rector 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 not¬
withstanding. 1
48. denuo] Froben’s second edition
was issued without date, but with
a new title page : IoANNES FROBENIVS
LeororI. ‘Habes iterum Morias Enco¬
mium..., 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 com¬
pleted 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.