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[1517
5 excusus; nam ambiebant multi.
Mitte tu si quid praeterea Th(e)o¬
exposuit.
ex Francofordia Lachnerus.
operae.
luce.
Veni in officinam postera
volumina, praeberem.
me non mediocriter hac sua
25 rentur.
Proinde
Commendauerat
Posteaquam
Coelius, quia erat summarius.
5. praeterea] Erasmus translated
Gaza’s Bk. rr in the summer of 1517.
7. Nesenus] Cf. Ep. 469. 17 seq.
11. Bellum] The Sileni (Adag. 2201)
had just been printed by Froben
(. 16) in a small quarto of 13
leaves, amplified to 18 by the addi¬
tion of scholia. The Bellum (Adag.
3001) followed in the same month,
and the Scarabeus (Adag. 2601) in May
(1. 24); both in the same form. The
Scarabeus was printed in continuation
of the Sileni, and Beatus eked out the
volume by adding 6 more leaves of
scholia with a preface dated 28 April
(BRE. 442). See BEr.?, Adagia.
13. De Copia] Cf. Ep. 462.
27. Coelium] Cf. Ep. 469. 8 n.
Hac aestate vult in officina
32. Spieras Bywater : Seieras MS.
31. summarius] Of. Ep. 531. 152 n.
32. Gabrieles] Gabriel Biel (c. 1425¬
c. 1495) of Spires, ‘the last of the
Schoolmen,’ after taking his M.A. at
Heidelberg, studied theology at Erfurt.
He was preacher in St. Martin’s at
Mainz ¢. 1460 and afterwards won the
favour of Count Eberhard im Bart of
Wiirtemberg. He received the Provost¬
ship of Urach, near Tiibingen, where
the Count built the church in 1472;
in 1482 he accompanied his patron to
Rome together with Reuchlin and
Nauclerus (Ep. 397. 14 n.); and in
1484 he was appointed Professor of
Theology at Tübingen, where Eber¬
hard had founded the University in
In his later years he joined the