[1078] Nam cotidie cogitare soleo quanam re Christianum adjuvem profectum. (Zw. Epp. ii. p. 13.)
[1079] Audeo ego intrepide omnem ecclesiæ abusum et omnia humana precepta in enunciatione verbi Dei damnare. (Ibid.)
[1080] Nugas esse et fabulas. (Zw. Epp. ii.)
[1081] Jam ære convicti palinodiam canunt. (Zw. Epp. ii. p. 292.)
[1082] Pierre Rumelin; pastor of Schwanden.
[1083] Tota enim nocte piscantes, sanguisugas, aspendios cepimus. (Zw. Epp. ii. p. 13.) Rasdorfer evidently alludes to what Pliny says of a kind of vine termed Aspendios: E diverso aspendios, damnata aris. Ferunt eam nec ab alite ulla attingi. (Hist. Nat. lib. xiv. cap. xviii § 22.)
[1084] Vertit vela indies senatus noster muliercularum more. (Ibid.)
[1085] Vult jam cucullum, post non vult. (Ibid.) That is, at one time it recognises, at another rejects, the Abbot of Saint Gall.
[1086] See Benedict Noll's letter to Zwingle, Epp. ii. p. 635.
[1087] St. Chorles Barromeo, Archbishop of Milan, suppressed somewhat later several convents in this district: "Monialium non dicam collegia, sed amantium contubernia," said he. (Die evangel Gem. in Locarno von F. Meyer, i. p. 109.)