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[1517 Saluta IoanBasileae viii Iulii die. 990692 Basle MS. Amorbachiana. (Basle. ) (c. 8 July 1517.) Ep. 628. ] detinuit vsque ad autumnum, Caue Gulielmus Nesenus noster me 10 ille me non fallat. MS. 594. 14. Chrysostomum] Cf. Ep. 575. 36n. Elucidatorium] Froben’s edition, published in Aug. 1517, is a reprint of the first, Paris, H. Stephanus, 19 Apr. 1516. The contents of the book are given in the next sentence. Clithtouei] Josse Clicthove (c. 1472—22 Sept. 1543), of Nieuport, in Flanders. He went to Paris, c. 1488, and was a pupil first of Chas. Fernand and then of Faber Stapulensis, to whom he became attached (cf. Ep. 597. 13 n.) and many of whose books he afterwards edited. After becoming Fellow of the Sorbonne, c. 1499 and D.D. 1506, he resided at Cluny as tutor to the Abbot’s nephews. Then, 1513-7, he was in Paris as tutor to the young Bp. of Tournay, L. Guillard (Ep. 360. 18 n.); whose fortunes he thenceforward followed, receiving a benefice at Tournay in 1519, and e..1525 a canonry at Chartres, which he held until his. death. 595. 7. Wop He wrote and edited numerous works, educational and theological. Many of the latter being against Luther, he was invited to, and took a prominent part in, the Synod of Paris, 1528. See Bibl. Belgica, Ghent, 1888, and a thesis by J. A. Clerval, 1894. 595. 2. adagio] Cf. Adag. 50, and Ep. TTE. 2,3. 4. scripserim] Ep. 464. 10-14. 5. Nesenus] In 1518 he was still hoping to go to Italy ; cf. Ep. 816. 1. 7. Ste) Cf. Hom. Il. 16. 385,6. 9. Callipedes] A. procrastinator; cf. Adag. 543. 11. Iacobum] Nepos (? Näf). He entered Erasmus’ service at Antwerp in 1516 (Apologia qua respondet, f°. A3 : Jortin ii. 497), and was the trusty messenger who carried the Utopia to Basle in May 1517 (Epp. 584. 15, 597. 43; 4 133to). ‘Lhe letters of this period show him returning in July—Aug. through Strasburg, Mainz, Cologne. Erasmus
