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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 pa¬
rentem 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. Excu¬
ditur 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.
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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 solitu¬
dinem’, 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 extri¬
cauero 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.
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