12. NOVEM] Henry was little more than 8, having been born on 2 June 1491; Margaret was born on 29 Nov. 1489 and was therefore not yet 11. The other ages given are correct. Inaccuracy in such trifling matters need not surprise us, seeing that Erasmus was writing more than twenty years after the visit. 16. IACOBO] James IV of Scotland, who was killed at Flodden, 9 Sept. 1513. 17. Mary afterwards became Queen of France by her marriage with Louis XII in 1514. 26. _vel_ here intensifies the word that follows. It is often so used with superlatives. VI [A letter written to Lord Mountjoy, who had intended to join Erasmus in Oxford, but had been prevented by a summons to attend in Westminster Hall on 21 Nov. 1499, for the trial of the Earl of Warwick in connexion with the rising of Perkin Warbeck.] 6. John Colet (c. 1466-1519) was now lecturing in Oxford. For his influence on Erasmus see X; and Mr. Seebohm's _Oxford Reformers_. Richard Charnock was Prior of St. Mary's College in Oxford; the Augustinian house, in which Erasmus was living. It is now practically demolished. 9. HORATIUS] _Ep_. 2. 1. 63: Interdum vulgus rectum videt, est ubi peccat. 11. CUIUS] _sc_. vulgi. 12, 3. nostro illo ingressu] Erasmus' arrival at Oxford; which for some reason seems to have been discouraging. 35. TUM ... TUM] A post-Augustan construction, for which Cicero uses _cum ... tum_. VII [A letter written to describe a dinner-party in a College hall in Oxford; possibly at Magdalen, to which Colet, who was presiding, is thought to have belonged. With the exception of Charnock, the other guests mentioned have not been identified. The letter is to be dated in Nov. 1499; Sixtin, to whom it is addressed, was a Dutchman resident in Oxford. The manuscript in which Erasmus pretended to have found this story of Cain is, of course, fictitious.] TIT. DOMINO] The title of a Bachelor of Arts. 2. CONVIVIO] 'Bene maiores nostri accubitionem epularem amicorum, quia vitae coniunctionem haberet, convivium nominarunt, melius quam Graeci qui hoc idem compotationem (symposium) vocant.' Cic. _Sen_. 13, 45. 6. Epicurus (342-270) was a Greek philosopher, who is traditionally but wrongly regarded as having taught that pleasure is the end of life. 7. CONDITUM] _condi[*]tum_, not _condi[*]tum_. [* i.e. long 'i', not short. Transcriptor.] Pythagoras (sixth cent. B.C.) was one of the greatest Greek philosophers. 20, 1. LAEVUM LATUS CLAUSIMUS] The left side was regarded as more exposed to attack than the right, which had the sword-arm. It was therefore a compliment to place oneself to the left of a friend, as though to protect him in case of need. Here nothing more is meant than that Erasmus sat on the Theologian's left. 25. POCULENTUM] connected with the wine-cups. 36. ALIUD] _sc_. quam solebat. 37. MAIORQUE] cf. Verg. _Aen_. 6. 49-51, of the Sibyl: maiorque videri, Nec mortale sonans, adflata est numine quando Iam propiore dei.'