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medicis aiunt theologos facere te.
fuit.
11. Stromer] He had married Anna
Hummelhain at Leipzig in March;
see Ep. 578 introd.
14. Coppum]of Calw, s. of Pforzheim.
With Stromer he was physician to
Albert of Brandenburg ; and thus was
brought into contact with Hutten,
whom he helped in the De Guaiaco,
Mainz, J. Scheffer, April 1519 (HE. 98).
His only published work is a letter to
Stromer, discussing ‘statum reipublicae
Christianae hoc seculo degenerantis ’,
written 31 Aug. 1520 from Magdeburg,
whither he had temporarily retired
from his duties in order to study
Hebrew, and printed with one of
Stromer (7 Jan. 1520, Aldenburg) on
the same theme, by M. Lotther, Leipzig,
c. Sept. 1520 (HE. 195). See G. Wust¬
mann’s life of Stromer, pp. 36-9.
18. Bartholo] See Ep. 134. 26n.
25. dialogum Latomi] Cf. Ep. 934.
3 nn.
29. Ferdinando] Cf. Ep. 917. 10 n.
35. Patera] In the inventory of
Erasmus’ property made by Gilbert
Cognatus, ro April 1534 (Basle MS.
C. VIL. 19, p. 2), this is described as
‘Poculum duplex ingens argenteum
inauratum, vtrinque habens insignia
Alberti Cardinalis Moguntini, qui dono
dedit’. In his will, dated 12 Feb.