Antikrisis: A Short Rejoinder and Defense

...time The text begins with "poris," the completion of "temporis" (time) from the previous page. for the sake of passing it when I am at leisure, I will try and experience it. But as for you, I think you did not wish to teach me endurance with your Laconic games original: "lusibus tuis laconicis"; a reference to the famously harsh and brief style of the Spartans (Laconians), implying Florentinus has been using sharp or biting wit., even if they do not proceed as far as great wounds and swellings. See to it that no one claims such a thing is either poorly modest for a man who is a Master of Humility original: "Humilitatis Magistro" and the least servant of the Benedictine Order original: "ordinis benedicti"; a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that follows the Rule of Saint Benedict., or ill-timed toward a man whom you do not know—an old man, at that—since those bloody games of Lycurgus Lycurgus was the legendary lawgiver of Sparta; his "games" often involved the ritual whipping of youths to test their stoicism. were intended only to exercise the young.

For you are entirely mistaken regarding my name, and you substitute one friend for another; it was he who pointed you out to me when I was living in Segodunum original: "Segoduni"; the Latin name for the city of Rodez, France. a year and a half ago. Nor have I ever suppressed my homeland, although you, being ignorant of the ancient geographers, philosophize I know not what concerning a Menapian The Menapii were a Belgic tribe of northern Gaul in antiquity.; which was the name once given to the peoples living on both banks of the Rhine, neighbors to the Ubii, Eburones, and Sicambri These were various Germanic tribes located in the region of the Rhine river.. Furthermore, Francis Gometz Franciscus Gometz: A specific individual, likely the author or a known associate, whose identity Florentinus has confused with someone else. is so well known in Lower Germany original: "Germania inferior"; a Roman province covering parts of what are now the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. that another person, about whom you wrongly guess, would in vain be able to substitute his own name, even if he wished to.