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645 | TO GERARD GELDENHAUER 67 vt summatim dicam, ingenium ab omni tyrannide alienissimum. Auget hane spem Dauid ille magnus huius germanus, vir modis omnibus patri adsimilis, sed hoc praecipue suspiciendus, quod vt ipse erat eruditissimus, ita summo studio adnitebatur ne passim rudes et indocti in cleri gregem irreperent; quod hactenus fieri videmus. Igitur in spem venio fore vt hic vnus et optimum parentem vnde natus est, et optimum fratrem cui successit, non referat modo verum etiam superet, tibique vberrimam encomiorum materiam suppeditet. Atque vt hac in re me tibi riualem intelligas, iam dudum Pacis querimoniam illi dicauimus, nostri in illum studii primitias. Excuditur Basileae libellus, breui istuc iturus. Quem si sensero non 30 displicuisse, fortassis maius aliquid audebitur, Bene vale, optime Gerarde, nosque clarissimo Praesuli saedulo commendatos facito. Louanii. Anno m.p.xvIt. pridie calendas Septembris. rs) Oo Y n 646. To ADRIAN BARLAND. Epistolae selectae (1520), f°. M vo, (Louvain.) (1517?) [This letter is found only in Barland’s volume described in App. 12. The opening passage seems to refer to some work by Barland based on the Adagia, and sent in manuscript for Erasmus to see, This was probably an early draft of Barland’s Adagiorum Epitome, Louvain, Th. Martens, June 1521 (see BEr.2). The Cardinal mentioned is presumably William Croy, who was Barland’s pupil in 1517 (p. 68) ; and though Croy was probably within Barland’s reach at any time during his residence in Louvain, I incline to date this letter in 1517 from the fact that Erasmus appears to have been using the 1515 edition of the Adagia, where the page-references for Adag. 2494 are wrong in both indexes, rather than those of Noy. 1517 or Oct. 1520, where they are correct. Though not ostensibly a reply, Ep. 647 may be Barland’s next letter to Erasmus after the receipt of this. | ERASMVS BARLANDO SVO S. D. Tyvs index, imo tui indices nusquam habent ‘Scytharum solitudinem’, mei vtrique mentiunturin numero, Proindeiuxta Plautinum consilium mandaui famulo vt, cum viam ad mare nesciat, amnis ductu illue perueniat: itaque repertus est locus. te redit. Ingenio tuo modis omnibus delector; simul atque me his extricauero negociis, iuuabit propius etiam te frui. Imperties, opinor, aliquam tui portionem Erasmo, sed ita ne fraudes R. D. Cardinalem, incomparabile nostrae regionis decus et studiorum omnium spem. Codex tuus ad 645. 32. F: commendatum a. 645. 20. Dauid] See Ep. 603. tI n. v. 808 B-E. 23. rudes et indocti] See the story 646. 1, Seytharum] Adag. 2494. related in the Ecclesiastes, bk. 1: LB. 2. Plautinum] Poen. 627, 8. F2
