Antikrisis: A Short Rejoinder and Defense

...that they are captivated by pageantry, games, and spectacles of this kind, and for that reason endure even hunger and thirst?

Therefore, my dear Florentinus, do not make me out to be some Suffenus original: "suffenum"; a reference to a character from the poet Catullus who was famous for being a "self-deluded" bad poet who loved his own work despite its poor quality., who, at least in his own judgment, amounts to something: I have never been self-loving original: "$φ\acute{ι}λαυτ o\varsigma$" (philautos) or self-satisfied original: "$αυτ\acute{α}ρεσκ o\varsigma$" (autareskos), unless perhaps you say it in jest. Now, while I would not unwillingly grant that I am no less inferior to Florentinus in learning than in fortune: thus your erudition, not wealth, and the Muse, not Rhamnusia Rhamnusia: An epithet for the goddess Nemesis, often used here to represent the fickle nature of fortune or the pride that comes before a fall., will bind me to you hereafter.

Although I do not doubt that the Brotherhood referring to the Rosicrucian Fraternitas possesses its fortunes not for itself alone, but also for its friends, nevertheless, if they share any of their hidden learning from their papers with students, I desire to grow rich in due time from those things—for kindness toward the whole human race, or even toward a few, diminishes nothing from such treasures. I have as yet sought nothing from their money-chests, nor plucked anything away. Nor should he be considered poor who is content with his lot. Greed original: "$πλε oνεξ\acute{ι}α$" (pleonexia), on the other hand, or Avarice original: "$Φιλαργυρ\acute{ι}α$" (philargyria) is the greatest evil to men original: "$μ\acute{ε}γιστ oν$ $ανθρ\acute{ω}π oι\varsigma$ $κακ\acute{o}ν$". Therefore, I am even less concerned about the gold and gems which your Alverda Likely a reference to a specific figure or author associated with the Rosicrucian manifestos or a local alchemical claimant. promises us in the stronghold, except for how much of the mind and time...