Silence After the Clamors

births, indeed as true successors
of Autolycus a legendary thief in Greek mythology, who,
around the beautiful Mount Parnassus the mountain sacred to the Muses, which
is dedicated to the Muses, searched
everything with shameful theft,
are cried out, proclaimed, and
scolded. But this is,
in my opinion, all much too
thoughtless and impetuous in judgment,
in that such people seek a nodum in scirpo a knot in a bulrush; meaning to seek trouble where none exists in undoubtedly certain matters, and in such things overreach
themselves to the highest degree,
for this brotherhood establishes nothing
that is contrary to the truth, or that
conflicts with good morals:
As also fairness itself,
reason, and the experience of the
ancient philosophers, the
order and nature, together
with the circumstances and proper-