[102] Froben died before the year was out.

[103] Martin Butzer (_c._ 1491-1551), later Bucer, a Dominican, who
obtained dispensation from his vows in 1521 and adhered to the
Reformation. At this time he was a member of the Strasbourg party, and
this letter is probably an answer to a request for an interview for
Bucer and other Strasbourg delegates on their way through Basle to
Berne. He eventually became Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge
under Edward VI.

[104] Henry of Eppendorff, a former friend who followed Hutten on his
quarrel with Erasmus.

[105] Erasmus stated in the _Responsio_ of 1 August 1530, that in the
Reformed schools little was taught beyond _dogmata et linguae_ and it
may be some such criticism, based on what he had heard from a reliable
source (perhaps Pirckheimer at Nuremberg), to which Bucer had taken
exception in his letter.

[106] Alfonso Valdes (1490?-1532), a devoted admirer of Erasmus, was
from 1522 onwards one of Charles V's secretaries. He wrote two dialogues
in defence of the Emperor.

[107] On this gem see Edgar Wind, 'Aenigma Termini,' in _Journ. of the
Warburg Institute_, I (1937-8), p. 66.

[108] Greek god of ridicule.

[109] Livy, I, 55, 3. Livy refers to the clearing of the Tarpeian rock
by Tarquinius Superbus (534-510 B.C.), involving the deconsecration of
existing shrines, as a preliminary to the building of the temple of
Juppiter Capitolinus. The auguries allowed the evacuation of the other
gods, Terminus and Juventas alone refusing to depart.

[110] Livy, 5, 54, 7.

[111] See p. 66.

[112] Preface to _T. Livii ... historiae_, Basle, Froben, 1531. Charles
Blount (b. 1518), eldest son of William Blount, Lord Mountjoy.

[113] _c._ 1495-1541, Professor of Greek at Basle, 1529. He found the
MS. containing Livy, Bks. 41-5, in 1527.

[114] Not 'illuminated.' Erasmus refers elsewhere (Allen 919. 55) to a
codex as _non scripto sed picto_.

[115] The MS., now lost, containing Bks. 33, 17-49 and 40, 37-59, found
in the cathedral library at Mainz, published in Mainz, J. Schoeffer,
November 1518.

[116] (1498?-1570). Taught Latin and Greek at Freiburg and became head
of a college there; in 1534 became the first Professor of Latin in the
College de France. Retired to Coblenz in 1542.

[117] By the Edict of Courcy.

[118] Amos iii. 8.

[119] Richard Reynolds of the Bridgettine Syon College at Isleworth.

[120] More had been executed 6 July 1535.

[121] Lit. 'no