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etiamsi non probo, neque quisquam vir vere pius probat, istas tam
virulentas insectationes, quae a spiritu mundi, non Christi, profici¬
scuntur. 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 com¬
mendabis 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 matricu¬
722.23 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 re¬
ference 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 mar¬
ginal 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 unsuccess¬
ful in England, and returned to Eras¬
mus for a time—long enough to copy
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