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615] egregie; quod incredibile mihi videtur. Cum quid tantopere conatos esse eos, FROM JOHN CAESARIUS 33 nisi hoc fermentum et que semel intus Innata est, rupto iecore exierit caprificus ? Ceterum vt quam optime valeas imprimis opto. Vale Coloniae 3°. Cal. Augusti. GIG] No PEnmr, Grins, Farrago p. 189. Deeg UNG ond avin cela an (Louvain. (c. 1 August 1517.) [The date may be assigned with precision from the reference (Il. 4, 5) to the Apologia against Faber (Ep. 597. 32 n.), which was begun and finished in twelve or fourteen days (Ep. 731. 3 n.).] ERASMVS ROTERODAMVS PETRO AEGIDIO S. D. Crarissime Petre Aegidi, ex aula recepi adhuc centum florenos ; reliquum promittunt breui. Si certus aliquis tibi continget aut si Iacobus huc venerit, mitte mihi Psalterium octaplum tuum. Nam hic penes neminem est; et eo opus est in Apologia quam paro aduersus Fabrum. D. Medico me vnice commendabis. Misissem illi suam Grammaticam, sed Apologia nonnihil ab instituto deduxit. Bene vale, mi Petre suauissime. Patri et vxori salutem dices. tudine sumus. dies perdidi iam octo. optime valeas. Dum cum Fabro litigo, pario E. 5. D. om. H. 615. 14. nisi hoc] Pers. 1. 24,5. 616. x. recepi] Through de Marques ; cf, Ep. 597. 26 n. 3. Iacobus] Nepos; see Ep. 595. 11 n. Psalterium] The Polyglott of Aug. Justinian (Ep. 810. 356n.). Erasmus speaks of it in the Apologia, LB. ix. 25 © — 26 À, but with scant respect. 5. D. Medico] Afinius (Ep. 542), to whom Erasmus was proposing to dedicate his translation of Gaza, bk. ii (Ep. 771); ef. Ep. 638. 15 seq. 9. Quintinum] Quintinus pictor : E. in marg. Cf. Ep. 584. 6 n. For Metsys (1466 — p. 13 July, a. 16 Sept. 1530) see an excellent article by van Even in BN. ALLEN III 616. 4. paro E corrig. : 14. M. om. H. 14. Nicolao] (? Bruchhofen) of Hertogenbosch, hence Buscoducensis, (1478 ? —pPp.- 1550) was known to Erasmus in his early years (Horawitz v, p. 98), perhaps in 1484-7 (ef. vol. i, pp. 582-4). He was B.A. at Louvain in 1503 and, after proceeding M.A., was for a time schoolmaster at Middelburg (c. 1510?: EE. 175, Where Coccius’ matriculation at Erfurt is to be dated Haster 1508), and at some time had Martin Lypsius for a pupil (Horawitz v, p. 125). In Dec. 1510 he was perhaps at Louvain and intimate with Dorp (Agric. f°. a2). In May 3511 he was certainly there, in the Collège du Lis (pref. to bk. v of Despauterius’ Ars versificatoria), where n H o
