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622] TO JOHN CAESARIUS 45
mentionem admiscuerint: quasi parum fuisset ineptire, nisi nos 5
quoque vocassent in inuidiam, et magnam partem fructus tot studio¬
rum laboribus expetiti corrupissent. Ne id quidem satis est visum ;
en alter libellus priori adsimilis, in quibus crebra mentio fit eorum
quibus scio lusus huiusmodi nequaquam probari. Quam male con¬
sulunt isti, non solum in seipsos, verum etiam in omnes quibus bone ro
litere chare sunt.
Iam illud est omnium molestissimum mihi, si modo verum est,
quod mihi istinc reuersus famulus meus Iacobus narrauit, apud com¬
plures haberi Colonie libellum nescio quem in Iulium Pontificem,
quomodo mortuus exclusus sit celo per Petrum. Audieram iam- 15
pridem huiusmodi fabulam actam in Gallia, vbi talium nugarum
immodica licentia semper fuit. Eam, opinor, aliquis in Latinum
sermonem transtulit. Demiror quid istis in mentem veniat, cum sic
ocium et operam perdunt. Ceterum admiror esse qui suspicentur
tam insignem ineptiam a me profectam ; opinor ob id quod sermo 20
fortasse sit paulo Latinior. Lusi quidem in Moria, sed incruente :
nullius famam nominatim perstrinxi. In mores hominum lusimus,
non in famam hominum. Que si vera mihi nunciauit famulus
(nondum enim satis credo), queso te, vir optime, vt istiusmodi nugas
impias pro tua virili premendas cures priusquam excudantur: non 25
quod isti digni sunt quibus hoc prestetur beneficii, sed quod nostrum
est publice studiorum honestati consulere, quam isti talibus lusibus
indigne contaminant. Porro quod ad me pertinet, scio neminem
fore qui me norit, quin satis intelligat istiusmodi nenias mihi supra
modum displicuisse, quippe indignas eruditis ac probis viris. 30
Iacobo Hornensi multam ex me salutem dicito, cuius epistola dici
14. Rhomanum post Pontificem add. B. 23. Que aB: Quod LB.
optime om. B. gi. Lacobo... 35. Caesari om. B.
24. vir
edition of Bk. i (Ep. 363), which had
reached Basle by 25 Oct. 1516 (Zw. E?. 19
quoting Hoy. i. 46). He is more freely
handled in Bk. ii (l. 8) which con¬
tains the famous judgement, ‘ Erasmus
est homo pro se’ (No. 59). This had
been seen at Nuremberg by 17 April
1517 (SE. 127) ; cf. also Ep. 581. 13-6.
13. Iacobus] Cf. Ep. 595. II n.
16. in Gallia] See Ep. 502 introd.
gi. Iacobo] Jas, Teyng (+20 April
1530) of Hoorn in N. Holland ; hence
Ceratinus. He was now studying at
Cologne under Caesarius (cf. Ep. 610.
48); but after taking his degree he
proceeded to Paris in 1519, and there
visited Budaeus in June (Ep. 992).
Thence he went on to Basle, but in
Sept. was driven away by the plague
(BRE. 125). In Dec. he stood unsuc¬
cessfully against Goclen for the Latin
chair in Busleiden’s college (Val. An¬
dreas, Collegi triling. Buslid. exordia,
1614, pp. 9,47; cf. Lond. xiii. 26, LB.
346, which is probably addressed to
him). About 1520 he began teaching
in de Keysere’s college at Tournay (cf.
Ep. 525 introd.) ; but by Sept. 1521 had
been driven back to Louvain by plague
(Lond. xvii. 12, LB. 595). Erasmus
was warmly interested in his welfare
(Lond. xxx. 9, LB. 627 ; also 01, pp. 5,
6,14) and persuaded him to undertake
a new edition of Craston’s Greek dic¬
tionary, which Froben published for
him July 1524, with a preface by
Erasmus. He was then tutor to the
children of Gilles Busleiden (p. 108) at
Brussels (EE. 28); but at the end of
the year he was persuaded by Erasmus