723. IN CANONEM] into the catalogue of martyrs and saints, i.e. to canonize. XXV [An anecdote of Colet related in a letter written in 1523 to give a sketch of a friend lately dead. The date of the incident is uncertain; but Erasmus' description of himself in l. 22 as 'hominem infelicissimum' points rather to the year 1506, when he was still struggling and had not as yet obtained the leisure he desired for his studies.] 4. DE LANA CAPRINA] Cf. Hor. _Ep_. 1. 18. 15, 6: Alter rixatur de lana saepe caprina, Propugnat nugis armatus. 'a (tali) eventu natum apparet, contentiose decertantibus duobus utrum lanas haberet caper an setas.' Erasmus, _Adagia_. DE ASINI ... UMBRA] 'de re nihili.' Erasmus, _Adagia_. 7. GUILHELMUM] Warham; see XXII and XXIII. 9. ENOHIRIDIO] Cf. X. 54 n. XXVI [A sketch of Thomas More, sent in reply to a request from Ulrich von Hutten, the celebrated German knight; written in 1519. Thomas More (1477 or 1478-1535) was the son of Sir John More (c. 1453-1530), knight, and afterwards Judge of the King's Bench. He was a friend of Erasmus' earliest months in England (see V). Henry VII attached him to his court and sent him on many embassies, and he afterwards filled numerous offices; being Under-sheriff of London, Privy Councillor, Treasurer of the Exchequer, Speaker of the House of Commons, and in 1529 Lord Chancellor in succession to Wolsey. This office he resigned in 1532, feeling himself in opposition to Henry's ecclesiastical policy; and this opposition cost him his life. He married in 1505 Jane Colt; and shortly after her death, probably in 1511, Alice Middleton.] 29. Apelles was a Greek painter of the fourth century B.C. Alexander the Great thought so highly of him that he would allow no one else to paint his portrait. 30. FULVII RUTUBAEQUE] The names of gladiators (cf. Hor. _Sat_. 2. 7. 96); who are taken here as types of the unskilled. 35. LEGATIO] i.e. if either More or Hutten should be sent on an embassy, which would bring them together. 66. OVIDIUS] _A._ _A_. l. 509 seqq. 67, 8. E CULMO] 'e culmo perspicitur spica demessa: etiam in sene apparet cuiusmodi fuerit iuvenis.' Erasmus, _Adagia_. 81. MOS] The custom of the loving-cup. 120. HESIODO] _Op_. 713: [Greek: Maede poluxeinon maed' axeinon kaleesthai.] 141. 'Though he was young of years, yet would he at Christmastide suddenly sometimes step in among the players, and, never studying for the matter, make a part of his own there presently among them, which made the lookers-on more sport than all the players beside.' _Life of More_, by W. Roper, his son-in-law. 145. MORIAS ENCOMIUM] The Praise of Folly; see p. 11. [in the middle of LIFE OF ERASMUS, paragraph starting with 'As he rode hastily'. Transcriptor.] 146. CAMELUS SALTAREM] 'Ubi quis indecore quippiam facere conatur, camelum saltare dicebant: veluti si quis natura severus ac tetricus affectet elegans ac festivus videri, naturae genioque suo vim faciens.' Erasmus, _Adagia_.