TO THE READER.

a pronouncement; by which he might with supreme right and merit, after his death, be called by the verdict of the Pythian Oracle, Πάντων Σοφῶν Σοφώτατος the wisest of all wise men; and by the eulogy of a distinguished Greek poet, πολλῶν ἀντάξιος ἄλλων worth as much as many others. Antiquity depicted Mount Parnassus, the mountain of the Muses, as covered in many thorns and briars; to which no one is granted ascent, unless by great sweat and labor, while soldiering as a student in the camp of good letters. In which, if anyone is said to have ascended to the highest degrees of the literary government with supreme praise, that incomparable Hero of all erudition, and Master of true Πανσοφίας Universal Wisdom, Erasmus of Rotterdam, truly claims these royal honors and almost divine rites ὅλῳ τῷ θυλάκῳ with the whole bag/entirely (as is customary to say by way of proverb) for himself while fate allowed; he is surely more worthy than the pagan philosopher Plato, to whom the name of divine genius is attributed in the company of the learned, and to whom not only one...