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66 LETTERS OF ERASMUS [ei
emendes et mittas rogat. Moriae Gryllum Plutarchi addemus,
Parasiticam et Muscam Luciani, Scarabeum et Silenos Alcibiadeos,
5 Seneca duobus praelis excuditur. Vellem exemplar esse castigatius et
recognitorem paulo diligentiorem. Sed nec is singula deprehendit
errata, nec, si nonnunquam deprehendat, is ego sum qui cuncta resti.
tuere possit, tum quod eruditio contigit perquam exigua, tum quod in
alieno libro nimis ingeniosum esse stulticia non vacat. Accepit hic
1o necessarius tuus a Frobennio duos aureos; fuitque nobis vel hoc
nomine gratior, quod proxime Erasmum facie refert, vt etiamsi id
verbis non testetur, tamen formae similitudo statim Erasmi clamat
esse propinquum.
Scripsi tibi nuper per Chunradum, Parisionsem bibliopolam, istis
15 de rebus longissimas litteras; at tuas quas ex Francofordia mihi
scripsisti, nondum accepi, nec etiamdum ex Schurerio verbum. Quis
hune veternus inuasit? Ad Augustum huc te rediturum speramus.
Interim de absoluendis Conficiendarum Epistolarum libris et de
Quintiliano restituendo nonnihil cogita. Misimus Senecae Claudium.
20 Salutant te et reducem exosculari cupiunt Frobennius, Gertrudis vxor,
Amorbachii et Nesenus. Saluus sit Dinckellius. Bene yale, vir
eloquentissime, et Beatum, ceu facis, ama.
Basilea pridie Calen. Maias. 1515.
331. From Bruno AMORBACH.
Basle.
1 May 1515.
Deventer MS. 91, f. 117.
LB. App. 24.
[There is no reason to question the manuscript date. In 1516 Erasmus was in
Basle at this time.
Bruno (1485—21 Oct. 1519) and Basil (c. 1488-8 April 1535 ; cf. Basle MS. AN.
VI. 36. f°. B), the elder sons of John Amorbach (p. 29), were educated under
Crato Hofman at Schlettstadt, May 1497—c. April 1500. In the summer of
1500 they matriculated at Basle, but in May 1501 they went to Paris and became
B.A. in 1504-5, M.A. in 1506. In spite of some protests from his father (cf.
EHR. xxii. 742-4) Bruno stayed on in Paris till the summer of 1508 (Basle MS.
G. II. 30. 188); but Basil returned home, and in June 1507 was studying law
3. Grylli MS.: corr. LB.
6. recognitorem] Evidently Nesen,
despite the change of tone from
Ep. 328. 2-4.
10. necessarius] Nothing is known
of Erasmus kinsmen, though he
doubtless had some, since his father
was one of many brothers (zx. 9). It
is possible that his brother Peter
(Ep. 3) may haye come to seek him in
Basle: or this person may have been
an impostor. There is no further
allusion to the incident. Mr. Nichols’
suggestion seems hardly necessary.
14, Chunradum] Resch, a native of
Basle, who had a bookshop in Paris.
Books were printed for-him at Paris
1516-26 (Ph. Renouard, Imprimeurs
Parisiens, 1898, pp. 317, 8), and Panzer
mentions one at Basle in 1535.
15. litteras] Ep. 328,
18. Conficiendarum] The De Con¬
scribendis Epistolis, see Ep. 71. The
Conficiendarum Epistolarum formulae was
a pirated publication ; ef. Lond. xxvii.
42, LB. 1295.
19. Claudium] Of. Ep. 325. 52 n.