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44 LETTERS OF ERASMUS [1517 foedus, vt petieras, renouaui. Hi ambo te quasi vno ore mirum in modum.laudibus efferunt, tuaque omnia tam probant quam quae maxime studio Christiano conueniunt ac sunt necessaria. Proinde te vnice in Christi visceribus oro ne quid acerbius in illum scribas, 25 quod erunt qui, etiamsi nihil sint de vestris tam dignis vigiliis intellecturi, intelligent tamen inter duo tam excellentia luminaria dissidium intercessisse ; ob idque vos quae ad Dei honorem hominumque studiosorum vtilitatem scripsistis, ad vanam gloriam effecisse iudicabunt, eaque, qua huiusmodi homines sunt temeritate, diuulgabunt. Magnificus dominus meus iussit vt te suo nomine salutarem, adiecitque: ‘Postquam ero in Hispania et sensero aliquid vacare, efficiam vt melius aliquid consequatur quam antehac consecutus est.’ Simul etiam de stipendii persolutione iussit vt ei ad memoriam reducerem in Hispania. Oro te, domine mi, dominum magistrum nostrum de Aeth meo nomine salutato. Vale ex Sensebardeau media inter Pictauos et Burdegallos via 12 Augusti a°. 1517. Tuus humilis seruitor Petrus Barbirius. Di 615622. To JOHN CAESARIUS. Lamentationes Obscurorum Virorum, f°. A‘ y° (a). Antwerp. LB. App. 160. 16 August 1517. [A letter printed by Ortwin Gratius (Ep. 526. 8 n.) in the Lamentationes Obscurorum Virorum, Cologne, Quentel, (c. March) 1518 (a), as ‘Epistola D. Erasmi Roterodami, quid de Obscuris sentiat’; and again in a second edition, ibid., Aug. 1518, unchanged except for a heading, ‘ Epistola Erasmi Roterodami, quam hic honoris gratia interposuimus, vt ea que falso illi a maleuolis imposita fuere, quantotius euanescant,’ It is also found prefixed to J. A. Brassicanus’ ms. copy of the Iulius Exclusus (Ep. 502 introd.), on ff. 14 v°, 15 r°(8); but as Brassicanus’ signatures, A! etc., begin on f. 16, it is probable that this letter was added after the completion of the Zulius ; being also doubtless copied from a printed original. Erasmus probably intended the letter to be circulated; although in 1519 (Ep. 967) and again in 1523 (Spongia, LB. x. 1640n, 1641AB = HE. 333, §§ 92, 4) he speaks of its publication as unauthorized. For his opinion of the Lamentationes, which were Gratius’ counterblast to Eov., see Ep. 830; cf. also SE. 162,4 and Ep. 852. In Ep. 686 he deals again with the topics of this letter. i Dai visit of Erasmus to Antwerp about this time see Ep. 639; cf. also Ep. 658 introd. ERASMVS CESARIO SVO S. D. MacnoprRE mihi displicebant Epistole Obscurorum Virorum, iam tum ab initio. Delectare potuisset facecia, nisi nimium offendisset exemplum. Mihi placent lusus, sed citra cuiusquam contumeliam. Sed molestius fuit quod in posteriore editione mei quoque nominis 621. 27. intercessisse LB : interoessisse MS. 622. 1. iam... 2, Delectare Bicking: iam... initio delectare af. 621. 36. de Aeth] Briard ; see p. 93. is introduced in Eov. i. 42, 46, 48, part 622. 4. in posteriore editione] Erasmus of the supplement added to the third
