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636] etiamsi non probo, neque quisquam vir vere pius probat, istas tam virulentas insectationes, quae a spiritu mundi, non Christi, proficiscuntur. Certe vbicunque terrarum adhuc fui, optimus quisque Reuchlino fauet. i TO HERMANN, COUNT OF NEUENAHR 59 Bene vale, Moecenas bonorum studiorum vnice, nosque quod soles ama. Vinantio, si adest, meo nomine multam dices salutem. Louanii postridie Bartholomei An. m.p. 17. 637. Deventer MS. 91, f. 48 v°. LB. App. 144. To PETER GILLES. Louvain. 28 August (1517). [In consequence of the reference to the death of Ammonius (cf. Ep. 623) the date must be interpreted of the Decollation of St. John Baptist (29 August).] ERASMVS PETRO AEGIDIO SVO S. D. Dz morte Ammonii vehementer doleo ; sed vtinam Morus adesset incolumis! Mitto quae cupio Basileam perferri; ea diligenter commendabis Francisco bibliopolae, aut alteri per hune homini certo. M. Nicolaum admonebis mihi non displicere de malo granato quod ait, si modo eadem est Proserpina et Hecate. Atque (triglas) illi sacras testatur Atheneus libro septimo (nam forte locum reperi), quod hi pisciculi vilissimi sint; et trigla etiam a ternione dicitur, qui numerus Hecatae sacer est. Adhuc apud Paludanum hereo. Agunt nescio quid theologi de me cooptando in suum ordinem. Atensis totus est meus, et item Dorpius; verum is quauis muliere inconstantior. De sellis gaudebo vbi videro. Mitto duas Apologias, quarum alteram donabis M. Nicolao. Mitte per Phrysium ad nos Epistolas posteriores Obscurorum Virorum, 636. 36. Vinantio] The form in Ep. 10. cooptando] Erasmus matricu722.23 is slightly different. Perhapsthe Nic. Winghe (+ 1552), who afterwards became subprior of St. Martin’s at Louvain. See Sweert, and cf. EE. 69. 637. 2. Basileam] Cf. Ep. 629, and the letters of 23-5 August. 4. Nicolaum] Cf. Ep. 616. 14 n. Erasmus had evidently consulted him about the phrase ‘Hecatae coena’, which is the subject of Adag. 3411, the first added in the edition of 1517-8. Nicholas seems to have suggested a reference to h. Cer. 372, 412, where Hades gives a pomegranate to Persephone. 6. Atheneus] 325. Erasmus’ copy of the editio princeps, Venice, Aldus, Aug. 1514, is in the Bodleian (Auct. 1. R. inf. 1. 1). It contains many marginal notes by him, one of which refers to the Vtopia. lated on 31 Aug. (cf. Ep. 441 introd.) ; and between 7 Sept. and 2 Nov. (Epp. 651. 23, 694-5) was coopted into the theological faculty. 11. sellis] Cp. Ep. 616. 16. 12. Apologias] ad Fabrum. 1g. Phrysium] John of Friesland. He was in Erasmus’ service at Antwerp in Sept. 1516 (Apologia qua respondet, f°. A’; Jortin ii. 497). In Sept. 1517 he went to England to seek his fortune, bearing letters from Erasmus (Epp 665-9) ; and More forwarded him from Calais (Lp. 683. 46). It seems almost necessary to infer that he isone of the two earlier hands in the Deventer MS. To identify him with Hand B requires the supposition that he was unsuccessful in England, and returned to Erasmus for a time—long enough to copy w re ox
