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622 LETTERS OF ERASMUS [1519 Cicero (VE. s$. 29). Perhaps c. Sept. 1517 he contributed some verses (f. 38) to Eck’s edition of Dionysius the Areopagite’s De mystica theologia, Augsburg, J. Miller, 25 May 1519 (see Wiedemann’s Eck, pp. 495-9); and in Oct. others (f°. a8) to Vadianus’ edition of Pomponius Mela, Vienna, J. Singren, May 1518. Vadianus passed him on to Urban Regius at Ingolstadt in Nov. (VE. 107) ; and he wasstill there in March 1518, when he produced a poem against the Turks (Böcking, Hutienit Opp. v. 205-16). In May he was at Augsburg, where Miller printed an oration by him on the same theme, addressed to Maximilian (ibid. 217-228). Later he matriculated at Leipzig, and having made a name with an oration De laudibus eloquentiae, 23 Aug. (printed by Lotther c. 25 Aug. ; Proctor ii. 11368), in which he describes himself (f°. A?) as of ‘immatura aetas’, he was appointed to lecture through the winter on Quintilian : but for his reputation there see Ep. gtr. 44-6. A letter from him to Pirckheimer, 3 Jan. 1519, thanks for hospitality shown at Nuremberg (Heumann li). Im the spring he left Leipzig and came to visit Erasmus at Louvain ; perhaps by way of Erfurt, if some verses addressed to him in Eobanus’ Syluae, bk. iii, belong to this period. Missing Erasmus he went on, perhaps to Paris (cf. 1. 88 n.). After this his life can only be traced at intervals. He perhaps came again into Erasmus’ circle: for there is a character named Parthenius in the Conuiuiwm Poeticum, first printed in Froben’s edition of the Colloquies, Aug. 1523. In 1527 he published a dialogue, Syjia, s. 7., in defence of Diocletian, addressed to John Lascaris. In June 1530 he was ambassador of John Zapolya, the claimant King of Hungary, employed at Constantinople (T. Wierzbowski, Materyaly do Dziejéw Pismiennictwa Polskiego, i, 1900, p. 39) ; and in Oct. 1531 he was still there (Brewer v. 471). By 1543 he was secretary to Ferdinand, and June-Aug. was sent by him to England to ask for aid against the Turks (ibid. xviii. i. 659, 894, 925, ii. 26); and in May 1545 he was in Cracow, perhaps on a similar mission, when he composed an Admonitio to the nobles of Poland, Cracow, H. Vietor, 1545, exhorting them to avoid the internal schisms which had caused the downfall of Hungary. | ERASMVS ROTERODAMVS TRANQVILLO PARTHENIO DALMATAE $, D, SCRIPSERAM ex Antuuerpia, doctissime Tranquille, vt, si nondum abisses, detinerent te Louanii dies aliquot in reditum meum ; aut si id non possent, efficerent certe ne discederes, ni prius mecum col. locutus: me meo sumptu sarturum eius morae dispendium. Sed 5 abiturientis celeritas epistolam nostram anteuertit. Itaque Louanium reuersus pro Tranquillo meo geminum carmen reperi, vtrunque iuxta doctum sed vtrunque sane querulum; quorum alterum testatur abisse te iratum huic Academiae, alterum mihi. In illo nos omnis barbaricae cuiusdam inhumanitatis reos agis: cui volenti nobis edere 10 specimen eruditionis tuae, literas nobis impartire, locus datus non sit, cum caeterae scholae premiis ad id inuitent quod tu gratis et sponte deferebas. In hoc me vt hominem Batauum et a Gratiis alienum incusas, qui repulerim a colloquio te quem amor videndi nostri e tam longinquo per itinera difficillima in regionem ignotam pertraxisset. 15 Verum ego tibi vtriusque nomine respondebo; sed meam ipsius causam prius agam. Primum vero verius est, optime Tranquille, quod id temporis Antuuerpiae versabar in negociis quibusdam mihi molestissimis. TIT. PARTHENIO add. F. 8. omneis F. 18. negociis] See p. 492.
