13. TOGATA ... PALLIATA] The classical distinction between two kinds of Roman drama, according as the scene was laid in Roman or in Greek surroundings. In the former the _toga_ was worn by the principal characters; in the latter the Greek _pallium_. 14. PLANIPEDIA] Acted by a _planipes_, a kind of pantomime; so-called because he used neither the _soccus_ of comedy nor the _cothurnus_ of tragedy in his performances. 15. EPITASIS] A Greek technical term, for the crisis of a play. 23. CATASTROPHEN] Also a Greek technical term; the point at which a play turns, leading to the conclusion. 26. OPTASSE] Dependent on a verb of statement understood from _laudo_. A common idiom. 41. CAROLI REGIS] Charles VIII, King of France, 1483-98. 42. GENTIL GERSON] Evidently _gentil garçon_, 'fine gentleman.' 47. FLAMMEUM] _sc_. velum. A flame-coloured veil, properly worn by brides. 53. SURDAE CECINISSE] A proverbial phrase of labouring without result; 'to waste one's breath.' 'Ortum videtur a ridiculo casu, quo saepe fit ut hospes incidat in surdum, quem percontetur multa, ridentibus iis qui surdum noverunt.' Erasmus, _Adagia_. 66. ALIENIS MANIBUS] by getting a friend to write his Latin letter for him. 67. FRONTIS] 'Frons habita est antiquitus pudori sacra, et facies item. Inde frontem aut faciem proverbio perfricuisse dicuntur, qui pudorem omnem dedidicerunt, velut absterso manu a vultu pudore.' Erasmus, _Adagia_. 70. Patroclus was the friend of Achilles. When Achilles refused to fight against Troy, Patroclus borrowed his arms, and was killed in the battle. 71. QUID SIMILE?] _sc_. inter nos. III [This letter describes a journey made in the exceptionally cold winter of 1498-9, when Erasmus paid a visit to his friend, James Batt. Batt was then at the castle of Tournehem, near Calais, acting as tutor to a young nobleman, the son of Anne of Borsselen, Lady of Veere, near Middelburg; to whose patronage he was generously trying to introduce Erasmus.] TIT. GUILHELMO] This form of the name William represents the German Wilhelm; Gulielmus is more akin to the Italian Guglielmo; Guielmus, which also occurs, to the French Guillaume. 5. AEOLUM] The king of the winds, whom Juno had persuaded to oppose the Trojan fleet under Aeneas as it sailed from Troy to Italy. See Verg. _Aen_. 1. 50 seq. 14. VIDISSES] _sc_. si adfuisses. 31. Bellerophon, after having vanquished the Chimaera on Pegasus, wished to fly with his winged steed to heaven. But Pegasus threw him off and ascended alone, to become a constellation in the sky. 35-6. CREDAS ... ACCIDISSET] The slight irregularity of tense is easily intelligible. 35. Lucian, _fl_. 160 A.D., was a Syrian citizen of the Roman Empire. His writings, which are mostly satirical, are in Greek. One of them is entitled _Vera Historia_. 57. ALLEVARE] 'to exaggerate,' opp. to _elevare_,'to disparage.' _Allevare_ can also mean 'to understate', but the sequence of thought is not so natural.