Letter #1783
Ioannes [DANTISCUS] to [Kaspar HANNAU]Löbau (Lubawa), 1537-11-16
English register: Dantiscus thanks Hannow for his extensive congratulatory letter written with great erudition. He noticed that the letter’s style was not original, but he thinks it right that a learner should borrow from others what he lacks himself. He praises Hannow’s studies of Greek and dialectics and encourages him to study hard. He has asked Georg Hegel to supply him with money to pay his teachers. Dantiscus’ brother Bernard will inform Hannow about other matters that need dealing with.
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Ioannes, Dei gratia.
Salutem. Carissime Nepos.
cf. , CIDTC IDL 1020⌊Litterascf. , CIDTC IDL 1020⌋ tuas congratulatorias easque copiosas et
eruditionem spirantes libenter legimus, licet alicubi
cf. Aesop 103 (Hausrath) ⌊alienis on the margin⌈alienisalienis on the margin⌉ essent plumiscf. Aesop 103 (Hausrath) ⌋[1] conspicuae, quod tamen non improbamus, oportet enim superinscribed⌈enimenim superinscribed⌉ addiscentem, ubi aliquando in suo deficit, in mutuum accipere ab iis, qui abundant. Quod Graecis litteris et dialecticae das operam, gratum nobis est – merces iis, qui tibi praelegunt, non deerit, utque illam tibi
[1] Cf. also Erasmus Roterodamus, 1979, p.72-74, l.41-42: cum corniculam alienis convestit plumis
[3] See cf. , CIDTC IDL 1777⌊CEID 1.1, No. 74cf. , CIDTC IDL 1777⌋
[2] In cf. , CIDTC IDL 1750⌊his letter from Cracow of October 23, 1537 (orig. AAWO, D.6, f.24, print Beitrage, No. 45cf. , CIDTC IDL 1750⌋) Hannow asks Dantiscus to help him pay for an additional, private course in dialectics and rhetoric with Valerianus Pernusius, a man fluent in Latin, Greek and Hebrew.