6 Soph. Ant. 319 (δρῶν σ᾿ ἀνιᾷ: δρῶν ἀνιᾷ v.l.).
9 Soph. Ant. 277.
16 Prius Adag. 907 (Impossibilia captas).
17 Soph. Ant. 92.
31723 Soph. Ant. 88.
26 Alibi Adag. 1450 (Ne nimium callidum hoc sit modo).
29 Soph. Ant. 67 f. (30 τὸ γὰρ).
32 Frustranea Er. may have formed the word after the analogy of 'superuacaneus'. See also his translation of Gal. De Optimo docendi genere, ASD I, 1, p. 662, l. 30 "frustranea spe"; the source text (47, p. 88 Marquardt) has ἐλπίσι ματαίαις. See R. Hoven, Lexique de la Prose Latine de la Renaissance, Leiden, 1994. s.v.
36 Soph. Ant. 666 f.
45 Soph. Ant. 737.
49-50 'Polis' ... videtur See Etym. mag. s.v., 680, 5-8.
53 Ant. 739 (ἄρχοις).
57 Plat. Phil. 28 c (58 ὄντως: οὕτω vulg.).
64 Soph. Ant. 683 f. (66 κτημάτων).
70 Cic. De or. II, 78, 316.
74 Cic. loc. cit. (neque attendit; 75 unde hoc simile ducat).
31980 Cic. De or. II, 27, 117.
82 Hier. Epist. 27, 1; 28, 5; 121, p. 10, ll. 20 f.; 133, p. 58, l. 26 Labourt; Comm. in Zch. proph. II, 8, 18-19, CCSL 71A, p. 820, l. 527.
Cic. loc. cit. (83 tamen et tardi; et iam; 84 manent).
4110 Inspired by Brassicanus, Prov. 44 (Ἀπάλαιστροι).
89 Cic. De or. I, 18, 81 (90 laetum et: laetum sed v.l.).
91-92 Huiusmodi ... sophistica A thrust at the scholastic logicians and their educational practice.
92-93 ad ostentationem ... inutilem Cf. De or. II, 20, 84.
93 in eodem libro I, 34, 157.
96 De or. II, 22, 94.
97 Leg. I, 2, 6 (98 aetati: aetate v.l.; Coelius Antipater Ziegler: pater codd.).
101 Brut. 20, 78 (102 Iam enim erat).
103 Or. 56, 186 (non †modo†; 105 aliquando).
108 'extrema manu' See Adag. 134 (Summam manum addere).
110 Cic. De or. I, 18, 83.
113 Cic. loc. cit. (114 vocaremus).
116 Brut. 86, 297.
118 Brut. 69, 242.
121-124 Transferri etc. Er. hardly misses any opportunity for attacking the monks and, especially, the mendicant friars. He flouts their ignorance and hypocrisy, their ostentatious way of preaching and chanting also in the Moria, ASD IV, 3, p. 158, ll. 524 ff.; see also Eccles. I, ASD V, 4, p. 112, ll. 645 ff. He quotes some of the stock statements they use in preaching at the end of the next adage.
4112 Inspired by Brassicanus, Prov. 41 (Cantilena ex scholis). Cf. Otto 338.
126 Plautus ... recitari See Adag. 3890 (Nugae theatri).
127 Cic. De or. I, 23, 105 (130 loquacitatem sine usu neque).
321133-134 illos ... tenent In his Methodus Er. admonishes that one ought to quote Biblical passages "non e summulis aut contiunculis aut collectaneis nescio quibus iam sescenties aliunde alio commixtis ac refusis, sed ex ipsis fontibus" (Erasmus von Rotterdam. Ausgewählte Schriften, ed. W. Welzig, III, Darmstadt, 1967, p. 62).
135 Non ... autoritas Aug. Contra Epist. Manich. 5, Migne PL 42, 176 "Ego vero Evangelio non crederem nisi me catholicae Ecclesiae commoveret auctoritas." (I owe this reference to J. Trapman.)
136 Ingratum ... debebatur Source not identified.
137 Multa ... scripta The original source is Ioh. 20, 30 "Multa quidem, et alia signa fecit Iesus ... quae non sunt scripta in libro hoc."
137-138 Non dimittitur etc. A sin will not be forgiven unless that which has been taken away is restored to its owner.' Corpus iuris canonici, in VI°, regula IV; vol. II, 1122 Richter-Friedberg (I owe this reference to C. Augustijn). The rule is quoted by Walther, 17503, where, however, the source is to be supplied.
142 Cic. De or. I, 25, 115 (ita in isdem rebus habiles, ita naturae muneribus ornati: ita naturae muneribus in isdem rebus habiles ita ornati v.l.; 143 ficti esse videantur).
144-145 Pandoram etc. Er. recounts the myth of Pandora in Adag. 31 (Malo accepto stultus sapit).
147 e triuio Cic. Mur. 6, 13 "maledictum ex triuio".
Cic. De or. I, 34, 159.
149 Cic. loc. cit. (150 quemcumque: si quemcumque v.l.).
153-154 prisci ... intendebatur After Gellius, quoted in ll. 193-203. As regards the legal formula one may bear in mind that consertum is a supine and that manu and manum alternate in the ancient sources; see the commentary by O. Skutsch on Ennius, Ann. VIII, 252 f., esp. p. 436.
156-157 'Theologi ... occupauerit' Er. owed more to Lorenzo Valla than to any other humanist. In his famous apology against the conservative theologian Maarten van Dorp (1515) he praises his precursor, "homo rhetoricus magis quam theologus", for having successfully applied his philological method to the New Testament (Ep. 337, ll. 839 ff.). Er. had used Valla's Adnotationes for his own revision of the Vulgate. The Italian grammarian had encroached on the field of the theologians even in his manual for a correct usage of Latin; Elegantiae VI, 34 is indeed concerned with the dogma of the Trinity. Er. made an epitome of this work (ASD I, 4). Van Dorp makes a sarcastic remark on the Elegantiae in his reply to Er. (Ep. 347, ll. 74-76). See S.I. Camporeale, Lorenzo Valla. Umanesimo e teologia, Firenze, 1972; Da Lorenzo Valla a Tommaso Moro. Lo statuto umanistico della teologia, Memorie Domenicane, Nuova Serie 4 (1973), pp. 9-102; Contemporaries III, s.v. Valla.
158 Cic. De or. I, 10, 41 (159 omnis; 160 nisi hic in; praeissem: praeessem v.l.; 161 manum: manu v.l.).
161 aliquanto post I, 36, 166.
164 Mur. 4, 9.
166 Quint. Inst. VII, 3, 17.
167-169 Cuius ... scriptum The English common-law system was characterized by extreme punctiliousness in form. The omission of a single contraction sign or an error of Latin accidence were fatal mistakes in a writ. In 1533 a convicted murderer was saved from the gallows by a single letter in the indictment ("quidam" for "quidem"). See J.H. Baker, An Introduction to English Legal History, London etc., 19903, pp. 102 f.
170 Iustin. Inst. IV, 6, 33 (171-172 pertinet; integrum a praetore restituebatur).
173-178 Proximo ... promissoris Excerpted from Inst. IV, 6, 33 a-d.
323178-180 Iustin. Inst. IV, 13, 10.
181 Hor. Serm. I, 9, 36 f. (182 casu tune respon dere).
184 Quint. Inst. III, 6, 69 (transferri cum in; 186 liceat agere).
186 Sen. Epist. 48, 10 (189 illos).
195 Gell. XX, 10, 1 and 7-9 (199 in iure; 200 manum: manu codd. Gellii XX, 10, 4; id est; conserendam; 201 atque profecti simul; 202 uti unam).
203 Cic. Fam. VII, 13, 2 (205 istic; 206 manum).
207 regnumque ... vi In the Mss. of Cic. Fam. the line breaks off after Rem repetunt. The remaining words have been supplied (from Gell. XX, 10, 4) in the edition used by Er. The lines are from Ennius, Ann. 252 f. Skutsch.
208 Cic. Mur. 11, 25 f. (210 agi posset, verba quaedam; 213 iure Quiritium Lambinus: iureque codd.; 214 manum Gell. XX, 10, 9: manu codd.; 215 Transit idem iuris consultus; 216 manum; ibi ego te).
218 Varro Ling. lat. VI (!), 64.
221 Quaedam ... obsoletae See Adag. 3874, p. 215, n.ll. 810-811.
223 actio herciscundae familiae Er.' starting-point is undoubtedly Cic. De or. I, 56, 237 "erciscundae familiae causam agere".
224-226 Haec actio ... agunto Not found in Cod. Iust. The source is Dig. X, 2, 1 "Haec actio (familiae erciscundae) proficiscitur e lege duodecim tabularum: namque coheredibus volentibus a communione discedere necessarium videbatur aliquam actionem constitui, qua inter eos res hereditariae distribuerentur." Er. himself has 'reconstructed' the passage in the laws of the Twelve Tables.
{ 227-229 veluti si quis ... herciscundae gloriae arbitrum. The last words are reminiscent of Cicero, Pro Caecina, 7, 19 "arbitrum familiae herciscundae postulavit" and De legibus, 1, 20, 53 "Sed ego plane vellem me arbitrum inter Academiam et Zenonem datum.". (A. Wesseling, Humanistica Lovaniensia, Vol. L, 2001, Leuven, p. 458)}
228-229 inter Guilhelmum ... arbitrum One of Guillaume Budé's major works, De asse et partibus eius (1515), is concerned with ancient coinage and measures. Leonardo de Portis, a minor humanist of Vicenza, wrote a treatise on the same subject, entitled De sestertio, pecuniis, ponderibus et mensuris antiquis. It was published at Venice, probably in 1520, and reprinted three times, lastly at Basel in 1530. There arose a question of precedence and charges of plagiarism. Er. mentions De Portis' work in a letter to Budé of 1527 (Ep. 1840, ll. 7-10), in which he observes that it is so similar to Budé's De asse, "vt nemo dubitet quin alteruter alterum compilarit." Er.' remark is not without malice. His relations with Budé, his peer and rival in the republic of letters, were rather tense. The French humanist had taken offence at the way in which Er. had characterized him in the Ciceronianus (1528). Epigrams criticizing Er. had ensued, in which Er. suspected the hand of Budé's friend Janus Lascaris (Epp. 2038, ll. 19-21; 2040, 15-24; 2105, 10-12). In our adage Er.' reference to Budé and De Portis functions seemingly as just a stylistic example of how the expression herciscere can be used. At first sight the reference to Budé is a compliment. However, for an informed reader of Er.' age there was more to it. By doubting covertly that Budé's De asse could | 325 claim priority of place, Er. sought to infringe the scholarly fame of his rival in a subtle and indirect way. - Er. owned two copies of De asse; see Adag. 1907, ASD II, 4, p. 285, n.l. 92. - For Budé, De Portis, and Lascaris see Contemporaries, s.v. For the sour relationship between Er. and Budé see also J. Chomarat, Mots et croyances, Genève, 1995, pp. 87-95.
229 Et loosely connects the statement on the monks with the preceding sentence.
229-231 hoc seculo etc. The reference is perhaps to monasteries that were being abandoned.
4117 Otto 910.
234 Cic. De or. I, 57, 245 (237 esset; 238 commendasset: commendasses v.l.; 239 nuncupassit; 240 magistri).
241-242 ipsos ... homines After Lc. 19, 40.
243 Deum ... Abrahae Lc. 3, 8 = Mt. 3, 9.
245-247 Quod enim etc. See Adag. 3719 (Incantatione quauis efficacius).
249 Cic. De or. I, 57, 242.
249-250 Amentum ... affixum Perhaps after Isid. Orig. XVIII, 7, 6.
252 Cic. loc. cit. (est).
254-255 Cic. Brut. 78, 271.
258-259 Top. 17, 65 (consilio).
261 Quint. Inst. XII, 3, 4 (ego sum nostri; 263 datum est).
265 ante Adag. 2342 (Hoc calciamentum consuit Histiaeus, Aristagoras induit).
267-268 oratio Lysiae etc. Cic. De or. I, 54, 231, quoted in Adag. 3731 (Colophonium calciamentum), p. 146, ll. 389 ff.
271 Cic. De or. II, 5, 21.
276 Cic. loc. cit. (277 iis).
4120 Inspired by Brassicanus, Prov. 43 (Conchas legere).
288 Cic. De or. II, 6, 22 (290 umbilicos; 291 Laurentum: Lucrinum Brassicanus, cf. Val. Max. IX, 1, 1 [Lucrini]; consuesse).
327293 Diosc. IV, 91.
294 Plin. Nat. IX, 102 f. (295 planis, concavis, longis, lunatis; 298 canaliculatim Gelenius: cuniculatim v.l.; pectinatim divisa; 299-300 densata; 301 bucinum).
301-304 In subterraneo ... imitantes Er. visited Cumae, presumably towards the end of his stay in Italy (1506-1509); see Adag. 3714 (Campana superbia), p. 137, n.ll. 179-180. In Ep. 756, ll. 17 f. he refers to a dark tunnel which one has to traverse on the road from Naples to Cumae.
302 quod vulgus ... Sybillae I suspect that Er. relies on literary evidence, namely Procop. V, 14, 3. In Cristoforo Persona's translation (see Adag. 3805 n.), p. 34, he read: "Cumis incolae ipsi Sibyllae speluncam ostendunt, in eaque ferunt illam vaticinatam fuisse." - The Sibyl's cavern, well-known through Vergil's account (Aen. VI, 42 ff.), was destroyed in the 6th century A.D. according to Agathias I, 10. For the remnants of the ancient site see R.G. Austin's commentary (Aeneidos Liber Sextus, Oxford, 1977) ad loc.
304 Val. Max. VIII, 8, 1.
308 Cic. De or. II, 6, 24.
315 Alias Adag. 2566 (Nihil agere).
320 Verg. Georg. I, 112.
322 Cic. De or. II, 23, 96 (haec: hic v.l.; 323-324 solent dicere).
4123 Inspired by Brassicanus, Prov. 56 (Lacinia obtinere). Otto 1321 n.
327 Medius teneris See Adag. 396.
Cic. De or. III, 28, 110 (328 reis).
330 et hodie ... animo The reference is to a Dutch expression, apparently something like 'iemand bij de slip van zijn jas vasthouden' (to hold someone just by the hem of his coat). Cf. Suringar 103.
331 scindere penulam See Adag. 99.
Ter. Phorm. 863.
332 Plaut. Asin. 587.
4124 Taken from Brassicanus, Prov. 55 (Surculum defringere).
335 Cic. De or. III, 28, 110.
338 Cic. loc. cit. Kumaniecki rejects some words transmitted by the Mss. and reads the passage in the following way: "Atque [hactenus loquantur] etiam hac <in> instituendo divisione utuntur, sed ita, non ut iure aut iudicio, vi denique recuperare amissam possessionem sed ut [ex iure civili] surculo defringendo usurpare videantur" (339 loquantur: loquuntur v.l.; 340 vi denique Madvig: ut denique codd.).
329343 Iuv. 1, 48.
344 Ter. Phorm. 526.
345 Soph. El. 61.
352 alias Adag. 1032 (Equi senecta).
353 Soph. El. 25 ff. (358 ἕπηι).
366 Soph. El. 305 f.
373 Soph. El. 319 ff. (374 ποεῖ: ποιεῖ v.l.).
385 Soph. El. 415 f.
392 alias Adag. 2018 (Leuissima res oratio).
394 Soph. El. 466 f.
331 400 Ne Hercules ... duos Adag. 439.
Catull. 62, 64.
403 Soph. El. 621.
410 El. 625.
412 illud Socratis ... cuperet Cic. Off. II, 12, 43, also quoted in Adag. 1067 (Exigua res est ipsa iustitia), in Apophth. III, Socratica 11, LB IV, 156 C, and in a colloquy, ASD I, 3, p. 646, ll. 99 f.
418 Hom. Il. I, 567.
420 Soph. El. 696 f.
429 Qui ... domi See Adag. 1684 (Praesens abest), ASD II, 4, p. 138, esp. ll. 180 f. "hodieque vulgo dicunt cogitatione peregrinantem domi non esse" ("Sijn sinnen sijn al van huijs" [His mind is away from home]; see n. ad loc.).
430 in alia regione esse Perhaps another reference to a vernacular expression, but it could also be just a general introductory formula.
Soph. El. 922.
436 Quo ... ille? Verg. Ecl. 3, 19.
440-441 generis ... natorum After Iuv. 8, 138 ff. "Incipit ipsorum contra te stare parentum / Nobilitas claramque facem praeferre pudendis. / Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se / Crimen habet, quanto maior qui peccat habetur."
442 Soph. El. 989.
446-447 Vbi non sis etc. Adag. 745.
449 Soph. El. 1170.
333453 Plin. Nat. II, 27.
454-455 Socrates etc. See Plat. Phaedo 61 c-62 b; Cic. Cato 20, 73 (vetat Pythagoras) "iniussu imperatoris, id est Dei, de praesidio et statione vitae decedere".
457 Soph. El. 1196.
464 Cic De or. II, 27, 117 (et iam; 465 manent: manant v.l.).
465 Leg. I, 6, 18 (466 ut oportet; quod).
466 Leg. I, 6, 20.
468 Top. 9, 39.
469-470 a capite ducere Not in Tusc., but Fin. V, 6, 17.
472 Cic. Mur. 12, 26 "Transit idem iuris con sultus tibicinis Latini modo", quoted in Adag. 4115, p. 322, ll. 209 ff.
474 et ilium ... instructurum 'so as to provide the latter, too, with traditional legal formulas.'
481-482 saltare ... mimos For the phrase see Adag. 4142 (Titius).
482 Cic. Or. 55, 184 (487 secuntur: sequuntur v.l.).
488 prouerbio Causa cadere Adag. 4115.
4139
490 Superius Adag. 3735 (Quadratus homo).
492 quadrare E.g. Verg. Georg. II, 278.
Cic. Or. 61, 208 (493 posteaquam; haec vel circumscriptio).
498 alibi Adag. 903 (In quadrum redigere).
335501 Cic. Or. 68, 229 (502 ἀπαλαίστρους: ἀπαλαίστους ed. Basil. 1528). Brassicanus, Prov. 44, discusses the same passage, but he gives the correct reading ἀπάλαιστροι. Brassicanus also refers to Quint. Inst. IX, 4, 56 (ἀπάλαιστροι: ἀπάλαιστοι v.l., see Spalding's edition).
504 Or. 4, 14 (505 adiuuet).
505 saltatio ... Sileni See Adag. 4142 (Titius), ll. 534 f.
506 Or. 68, 229 (ἀπαλαίστρους).
507-508 Opt. gen. 3, 8 (510 Sed qui eatenus Gulielmus: sed quatenus codd.; valuerunt, sani et sicci; 510-511 ita ut palaestritae, spatiari in xysto ut liceat, non ab). Er. has used the Basel 1528 edition.
514-515 in xysto spaciantur Cic. Opt. gen. loc. cit. - in solem et puluerem Cic. Leg. III, 6, 14; Brut. 9, 37.
518 Cic. Brut. 33, 127.
520 Cic. loc. cit. (522 Mamilia: manilia v.l.; 523 sese).
523-524 e cursu revocare Cf. Brut. 67, 236 "quasi revocatus in cursum".
524 in cursu esse E.g. De or. II, 19, 82; Liv. XXVIII, 40, 10; Ov. Fast. VI, 362.
528 After Cic. Brut. 62, 225.
530 Cic. loc. cit. (532 cavendumst ne quid in agendo).
533 Quint. Inst. XI, 3, 128.
534 Hor. Serm. I, 5, 63.
535 saltare cordacem more Sileni Lucian. Icar. 27; De salt. 22. See Er. Moria, ASD IV, 3, p. 88, l. 304 "Silenus ille senex amator, τὴν κόρδακα saltare solitus" and Miller's notes.
539 Cic. Brut. 64, 228 f. (542 omnibus Diom.: omnis v.l.).
545 Plin. Nat. XXXIV, 49 and XXXVI, 18.
548 Cic. Brut. 69, 243.
549 in aliquo ... esse E.g. Cic. De or. III, 9, 33.
337550 in nullo ... esse E.g. De or. III, 56, 213. Cic. Brut. 69, 243 (551-552 honores et pecuniam et gratiam consecutus etiam in patronorum; aliquem numerum).
553 Brut. 76, 263.
557 Cic. Brut. 91, 313.
558 leonem ... agnoscere See Adag. 834 (Leonem ex vnguibus aestimare).
558-559 Protogenes ... Apellem Er. recounts the story in Adag. 312 (Nullam hodie lineam duxi).
559 Cic. Brut. 91, 313 (560 non naevo).
562-563 its ... occasio See e.g. Plaut. Cist. 635 f.
566-567 Ne ... factites After Cic. Or. 43, 147.
569 Versum The provenance of the line is unknown. Ribbeck CRF p. 137.
Cic. loc. cit. (572 delecter: delectet v.l.).
574-577 Δωριάζειν ... nudae incedebant Etym. mag. Δωριάζειν 293, 40-45. Er. has added the qualification parum decore.
576 fenestrato The word is reminiscent of Vitr. III, praef. 1.
577 Apud ... incedebant After Plut. Lyc. 14, 4.
578 Iuv. 2, 66; 76; 11, 188.
580 Steph. Byz. Αἰτωλία.
581-582 auidi ... dicebantur See Adag. 1445 (Dorica Musa).
582-583 quod omnia ... αἰτεῖν Steph.: παρὰ ῥῆμα τὸ αἰτεῖν. In other words, Stephanus derives Αἰτωλός from αἰτεῖν, but Er. derives it from αἰτεῖν plus ὅλον.
586-592 quum M. Antonius etc. After Plut. Anton. 15.
593 Simili ... testamentis A dig at the mendicant friars. In the colloquy 'Funus', ASD I, 3, pp. 537-551, members of competing mendicant orders are fighting over the will of a dying man.
4150 Otto 1265.
596 oculis ... ferre See Adag. 3598 (Capite gestare).
599 apud Μ. Tullium See Otto 1265.
600 Plat. Rep. X, 600 d (602 οὐκ). Er. has quoted the same passage in Adag. 3598.
338606 Lucian. Deor. dial. 6 (ὁ Ἔρως, ὃς ἀρχαιότερος εἶ πολὺ Ἰαπετοῦ).