[567] pontifice, a Cæsare, a regibus, et principibus, a doctissimis etiam et carissimis amicis huc provocor. Erasm. Zw. Epp. p. 308.
[568] Nulla te et ingenio, eruditione, eloquentiaque tua dignior esse potest. Adrianus Papa, Epp. Er. p. 1202.
[569] Res est periculi plena. Er. Epp. p. 758.
[570] Spectator tantum sis tragœdiæ nostræ. L. Epp. ii. 501.
[571] Quidam stolidi scribentes pro te. Unschuldige Nachricht, p. 545.
[572] On this subject, M. Nisard says (Erasme, Revue des deux mondes, iii. 411), "We are grieved for our kind, when we see men capable of grappling with eternal truths, fencing all their lives against trivialities, like gladiators fighting against flies."
[573] L. Opp. xix. 146.
[574] Jacta est alea......audax, mihi crede, facinus......expecto lapidationem. Er. Epp. p. 811.
[575] Quomodo triumphans nescio......Factio crescit in dies latius. Ibid. 809.
[576] De libero arbitrio Diatribe. Eras. Opp. ix. 1215, sqq.