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vit, atque ha-c (juidem bella ca felicitate gesta sum, ut magis vicerit authoritate, & prudentia, (juarn sanguine civiuin. Ad hec accedunt pleraque pietatis exempla, potissimum quod scholam Parisiorum dicavit. Hie digredi licet quam honeste sint prin< ipibus viris l//rme atque ttr max- imeqiuyad pietatem pertinent. Kt hie fiat comparatio civilium& belli- virtutum, sane tale esse historic tiluin ut longe civilibus pntitissc vide- ant. Nihil no;/ prius pace babuit. dementia tali, ut noxiis etiarn. si gu<r liceret parceret ; pietatis adeo amans, ut assiduo usiu sit Alcuino Anglo de divinis differente. In plerisque constantini Ciesaris similimus, cutus com- paratione nonnihil crescet Carols.
Senect;^ pacata, hoc uno infortunata <\uod now convenicbat p/vrsum inter filios.
Mors, consectanea mortis ampla reliquit unww ex se nlium, optimum principem Ludovicum pium, inter haec sa?pe excursionibus de borum tem- porum moribus declamare licet."
The reference to the "sayengsof the gospel" which follows in Cox does not appear in Melanchthon.
60 : 29 f. Follows M. I. Cox as usual however has taken the illustra- tions suggested by M. and explained them at length in all their circum- stances. The account of Scevola is condensed from Livy, Book II, Ch. xii.
62 : 1663 : ii. Translation from M. I. See supra pp. 95-96.
63 : 11-18. Amplification and paraphrase of M.
63 : 19-21, 24-27. Translation from M. I.
63:23. The reference to Erasmus is Cox's own. See " Li bell us de
Conscribendis epistolis, Autore D. Erasmo Apud pneclaram Can-
tabrigiensem Academiam. Anno. M.D.XXI." [" The second book printed at Cambridge"], fol. Xlb XLIIIa, " DE EPISTOLA SUASORIA." In which some of the topics treated are [I quote from the marginal analysis]: Quibus partibus constet suasoria epistola. Narratio. Diuisio. Cofu-
tatio Definitiones singulorum. Honestum. Rectum. Virtus. Offi-
ciuw Laudabile. Vtile De simplici conclusione. Persona.
Nomen. Natura etc., etc.
64 : 965 : 28 . Translation from M. I.
64 : 25-27. This copybook moral is added by Cox.
65 : 2. " As Erasmus dothe in his epistle prefixed afore his oracyo* made to the prayse of folysshnes." See " Moria? Encomivm Erasmi Roterodami Declamatio .... Anuerpienw M.I). XII," and innumerable other editions. The epistle is addressed to Thomas More. Its length is three quarto (= octavo size) pages.
65 : 10 " Polycyans oracyons made to the laude of hystoryes " are also cited several times in M's. de Rhetorica (e.g. ed. 1523 D vi, a and b).
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