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648 | Certum est quiuerimus coniicere. Iam quod est in Vespasiano, 45 id est, n emendum inuitet. etiam restituimus. fruere. AN. M.D.XVII. 48. 5 add. Yom. B?. 46. Vespasiano] cap. 23. 47. © Aaxns| Men. Fr. (ed. Kock) 921. 48. örav d’] Cf. id. 223. 2, where the reading is: èérdv dmoddvns, avOis e äpxis eo. 57. Portium] Leonardus de Portis (c. 1464 — 15 Sept. 1545), a lawyer of Vicenza, author of De sestertio, pecuniis, ponderibus et mensuris antiquis. In his Suetonius, Aug. 1516, f°. ;, Egnatius states that it had been composed five years before ; but the preface he wrote for an edition, perhaps the first, of the De sestertio, s.a. et l., shows that it was not printed till some years after the Suetonius. This edition was reprinted by John Froben, s.a.; and by 66. fruere om. y. AN, M.D.XVII H. Froben, J. Herwagen and Nic. Episcopius, March 1530. Panzer cites an edition, Rome, F, M. Calvus, 1524. Budaeus on reading Egnatius’ note feared that he might be thought to have borrowed from Portius, and urged Egnatius to get the book printed (BE.* 24: 27 Nov. 1518). Erasmus raised the question of plagiarism again in 1527 (Lond. xx. 9, LB. 875), and moved Budaeus to inquire of J. Lascaris, who replied (BE. f. 131 v°) that he had seen a ms. copy of Portius’ book in Leo x’s early years at Rome; cf. also BE. 163, and Lond, xxiv. 18, LB, 1198. For Portius see A. G. di Santa Maria. Scrittori Vicentini, iii. (1775) pp. 210-28.
