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trrucem, vel decern Frandscanis cucuUis oiiustum: et si
proceres ordinis intelligerent, quantum dedecus conciliat
nomini Franciscano, caesum virgis dederent ilium perpetuo
careen. Verum ego suspicor fictis nominibus rem geri, nee
Franciscanum esse, imo ne Christianum quidem, sed Ja«
daeum. Nam hujus coUuviei magna turba se nuscet huk
e^desise tempestati.
Admonitio adverstcs Mendachm*
This is a defence of his behaviour towards Eppendorf.
Antibarbarorum Liber primus.
Dedicated to Joannes Sapidus.
'This is a defence of polite literature, against the bar-
barians of those times, part of a work begun in his youth^
afterwards lost, and then recollected by him as well as he
couldf There is in it much vivacity, and a juvenile luxuri*
ancy ^ but it mends upon us as we proceed in reading il^
and the latter part is superior to the beginning.
The strayed books of the Antibarbari were in England^
and afterwards seen by Ascham, who made an offer of them
to Froben. But I imagine that Froben, having given an
edition of all the works of Erasmus^ in nine tomes, in the
year 1540. and amongst them the fragment of the Anti*
barbaric prepared for the press by Erasmus, was not in-
clined to make any additions to that collection.
