[29] Die lateinischen Schülergespräche der Humanisten, pp. 163–163.
[30] Pasce animos nostros Christe caritate tua, qui benignitate tua alis vitas animantium: sancta sint, Domine, haec tua munera nobis sumentibus, ut tu, qui ea largiris, sanctus es. Amen.
[31] In John Conybeare’s Collection of Proverbs (1580–1580) the following rendering is given: “One knave will kepe another companye, one pratteler wille with another, like will to like.” Letters and Exercises of John Conybeare, p. 42. London: Henry Frowde, 1905.
[32] Audire male. To have an evil reputation. Lewis and Short aptly quote from Milton’s Areopagitica: “For which England hears ill abroad.”
[33] On a tombstone. Dr. Bröring quotes from Guicciardini, Belgicae Descriptio, 1635, where an account is given of the tombstone to a daughter of the Countess Mathilde of Holland in a Cloister near the Hague.
[34] Amphora is a measure for liquids. It was equal to six gallons seven pints. The congius, in the Tri-congius, was a measure of one-eighth of an amphora.
[35] I.e. of the nature of bugs.
[36] Decoxisse from decoquere—which means both to cook and to become bankrupt.
[37] Dr. Bröring quotes from Erasmus’s Adages, Chil. I. Cent. viii. Prov. 86, to show that formerly men of obscure birth were termed terrae filii.
[38] Capitulum lepidissimum—a term of endearment used by Terence.