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ordines hominum ; aduersus illos magis clamandum qui suis vitiis
ordines alioqui praeclaros dehonestant. Vtilius enim fuerit osten¬
dere quantum absint a vera religione qui Benedicti, Francisci aut
Augustini institutum profitentes, ventri, gulae, libidini, ambitioni,
auariciae viuunt, quam ipsum vitae genus incessere. Inutilius sit
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ueniat aut quid expediat addi. Ita est humanum ingenium, citius
ducitur ciuilitate quam austeritate pertrahitur.
Non parum autem ponderis addet orationi tuae si quae doces,
potissimum ex arcanis voluminibus haurias, si vita doctrinae re¬
sponderit, si docendi officium nulla gloriae, nulla quaestus suspicione
vitietur. Vim atque èvépyerav addet si quaecunque doces, amaris
ex animo ; si ad dicendum non a compotatione aut prophano col¬
loquio, sed ab altissima precatione te contuleris, vt ad inflammandos
aliorum animos ipse ardens accedas.
Sed nae ego haec nimis multa ad te, a quo magis eram ipse
docendus. Bene vale, mi Iona.
Antuerpiae. Calend. Iuniis. Anno m.p.xIx.
951986. From ULRICH HUTTEN.
Mainz.
5 June (1519).
[First printed in an edition of Erasmus’ Ratio verae theologiae (Ep. 661), Mainz,
J. Scheffer, 1519 ‘interregni vero mense quinto’, i.e. the first half of June (a).
It comes at the very end of the book, on two unnumbered leaves which follow
p.156; and it obviously served the printer’s necessity (cf. p. 496). It is not in
Froben’s edition of the Ratio, Feb. 1520, but appears in his of March 1520 (8) with
a misprint corrected, of 1521, and of June 1522.
It refers to so many topics which are not in Ep. 951, that it may be taken to
answer more than one letter. Hutten had heard from Erasmus shortly before
21 May (HE. 126).
Erasmus’ reply, which he comb
LB. 447: 23 July 1519), shows th
movements (cf, ll. 39,40), committed it to Pace (cf. Ep. 968. 6 n.).
sequence it was delayed in arrival, and Erasmus read it first in print.]
Ratio verae theologiae p. (157).
Jortin ii. 369.
ined with his sketch of More (Lond. x. 30,
at Hutten, in uncertainty as to Erasmus’
In con¬
HVTTENVS ERAS. SVO S.
Tvas infinitas ad me epistolas non vidi; nam vnam accepi in
exercitu cum Tubingam obsideremus, eamque perbreuem: quod
videre te oportet cui infinitas illas committas. Verum de eo quem
hue cum libro Principi offerendo misisti, nihil est quod sollicitus
986. 1. in exercitu) Hutten bad been and ended 1 May, on the capture of
serving in the army of the Swabian
League which subdued Duke Ulrich
of Wurtemberg, the murderer of his
kinsman (cf. Ep. 365 introd.). The
campaign began after the Duke's re¬
duction of Reutlingen, 28 Jan. 1519 ;
Tubingen, which had been besieged
since the middle of April. See HE.
115