[A letter written in 1507 to the famous printer Aldus (1449-1515) proposing a new edition of the translations from Euripides mentioned in XI. Aldus assented and the book appeared in Dec. 1507.] 2. UTRIQUE] Greek and Latin. 7. VOLITATURUS] Cf. Ennius in Cic. _Tusc_. 1. 15. 34: Nemo me lacrimis decoret nec funera fletu Faxit. Cur? Volito vivu' per ora virum. 20. Paul of Aegina was a Greek writer on medicine, whose works were much esteemed in the sixteenth century. 27. William Latimer (c. 1460-1545) was an Oxford scholar of great fame in his own day. He had recently been studying in Italy. 28. Cuthbert Tunstall (1474-1559) was a scholar and lawyer, who after discharging important embassies was made Bishop of London in 1522, and Bishop of Durham in 1530. He also had been studying in Italy shortly before this time. 33. Badius' edition had been published in Sept. 1506. 38, 9. Cf. Soph. _Ajax_ 362, 3: [Greek: Euphaema phonei mae kakon kako didous Akos, pleon to paema taes ataes tithei.] 41. MINUTIORIBUS ILLIS] The famous 'italic' type, first cast for Aldus, and said to have been modelled on the handwriting of Politian, the Italian humanist. 54. MERCURIUS] Cf. IX. 21 n. XIII [An extract from a letter written in 1531 to an inmate of a Venetian monastery, St. Antonio in Castello. It describes an interview which Erasmus had with Cardinal Grimani in 1509, just before leaving Rome to return to England. Grimani, who was one of the most influential cardinals at that time, resided in a palace built by Paul II--now the Palazzo di Venezia--near the Church of St. Mark. On his death in 1523 he left his valuable library to the monastery above-mentioned: whence it has passed into the Library of St. Mark's at Venice.] 12. UT TUM ABHORREBAM] This clause is explanatory of _tandem_. 15. MUSCA] A figurative expression, meaning 'the slightest sign'. Cf. 'as big as a bee's knee', of something small. 55. ERAM RELICTURUS] = _reliquissem_. An idiomatic use with the future participle. Cf. Livy 1. 40 'Gravior ultor caedis, si superesset, rex futurus erat'. XIV [An extract from a letter dated 29 Oct. 1511 to Colet, who was then engaged on the foundation of St. Paul's School, and had asked Erasmus to make inquiries at Cambridge for a suitable under-master.] 2. MAGISTROS] _sc_. artium. 19. NOS RELIQUIMUS] Matt. 19. 27. XV [An extract from a letter written to a French scholar in 1532 from Freiburg. It describes Erasmus' meeting with Cardinal Canossa, who had been sent to London by the Pope in June 1514 to endeavour for peace between England and France. Andrew Ammonius, who arranged the meeting, was an Italian who held the important post of Latin Secretary to Henry VIII, and was endowed with a Canonry in St. Stephen's Palace at Westminster, on the site of the present Houses of Parliament. He was an intimate friend of Erasmus, and as Canon had an official residence in St. Stephen's, on the banks of the Thames.]