1 Line 495.
2 Homer, Iliad
II.25.
3 Works and Days 346.
5 See Homer, Iliad
Book 1.
5 Aulus Gellius,
Noctes Atticae X.11; Macrobius, Saturnalia VI.8-9.
5 Cf. Ennius, Annales
XII.363, Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem.
6 Aeneid I.136.
7 I.e. a verse
scanning thus: ’Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Baltimore.’ This
delightful English example was composed by John Herington.
7 Erasmus’s Latin
translation: Festina lente. Nam qui tuto citraque lapsum rem gerit,
melior est, quam audax et confidens.
10 Servius takes
the Greek ἐνιαυτὸς to be formed as if from ἐνὶ and ἀυτγός
’itself’, therefore ’going into itself.’
10 Vergil, Georgics II.402.
10 Plutarch De
Iside et Osiride 354F & 371E.
10 Suda Lexicon
10.170.
12 … circuli
ratio quadrat…Erasmus’s joke.
13 Oppian Halieutica
II.540; 587. The text given in the print does not scan. Since I was by
no means able to consult a more correct version, I have ventured to
emend what I was given.
14 Reading colligit
for print’s colligi.
14 Is Pliny
here, and then Erasmus, confusing dolphins and sharks?
14 See Natural
History VIII.29ff.
15 Vergil, Aeneid
V.56.
19 By this time
Aldus had been dead ten years.
21 Erasmus puns: …quin mulcta afficitur, quisquis in huiusmodi mercibus fucum fecit.
25 Erasmus: … exstructo altari…
27 Erasmus writes
“courtesy.” I have changed this in order anachronistically to refer to
the famous slur foisted on Bentley in a different context.
27 Amici
mores nosse oportet, non odisse. Cf. Mores amici noveris, non
oderis, Adagia II.v.96.
27 Terence, Andria
126, echoed by Horace, Epistles I.19.41.
28 Sallust, Cataline
i.6.
28 Aristotle Nicomachean
Ethics 1142b.
28 Diogenes
Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers 1.87.
28 Erasmus means
Publilius Syrus, D 3 and D 6.
28 Line 617.
28 Plato, Republic
613B - C ; cf. 528D.
28 Quintilian, Institutio
Rhetorica I.3.
28 Aulus
Gellius, Noctes Atticae XIII.2.
29 Plato, Republic
434D - 441C; cf. Timaeus 44D.
29 Seneca, De
Ira i.10.
29 Regum
et imperatorum apophthegmata 207C.
29 Terence, Eunuchus
II.iii.89.
29 Plato, Republic
398C-412B .
31 St. Jerome, Letters
lxvi.9.2.
32 Odes
I.xii.45-46.
32 Pindar, Nemean
VIII.40-42.