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Letter #3025

UNKNOWN to Ioannes DANTISCUS
s.l., [1546/1547, after 1546-09-25]


Manuscript sources:
1fair copy in Latin, autograph, BCz, 1598, p. 607-608

 

Text & apparatus & commentaryPlain textText & commentaryText & apparatus

 

BCz, 1598, p. 608

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Maecenas ms. Moecenas(!) ⌈MaecenasMaecenas ms. Moecenas(!) ⌉, doctis decus et fons inclite Muses Greek goddesses of literature and the arts⌊MusisMuses Greek goddesses of literature and the arts⌋
En iterum incomptos versus adesse vides.
Da veniam quaeso: puduit dimittere servum
Absque meo vacuum carmine. Nonne probas?
Nam licet ingenium friget tamen ipsa voluntas
Prompta sit officii docte patrone loco.
Destituunt vires linguam roburque fathisci overwritten⌈ii overwritten⌉t,
Integer est animus, qui cf. Hor. Epist. 17, 164 Vela quidem Creten ventis dedit ille secundis / sed tu non ideo cuncta licere puta! ⌊puta cuncta volatcf. Hor. Epist. 17, 164 Vela quidem Creten ventis dedit ille secundis / sed tu non ideo cuncta licere puta! ⌋
Qui vix Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (*43 BC – †17 or 18 AD), ancient Roman poet⌊NasoniOvid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (*43 BC – †17 or 18 AD), ancient Roman poet⌋ quo non facundior alter
Cesserit ingenio si id quoque fata velint
Aldina fuerat clarus qui in arte Hieronymus Vietor (Hieronymus Büttner) (*1480 – †1546/1547), from 1518 owner of one of the largest modern printing houses in Cracow, previously head of a printing house in Vienna; bachelor of Arts at Cracow University (1499); typographer of the royal chancellery of Sigismund I Jagiellon (SZWEJKOWSKA, p. 80-82; KAWECKA-GRYCZOWA, MAŃKOWSKA, p. 325-357)⌊VietorHieronymus Vietor (Hieronymus Büttner) (*1480 – †1546/1547), from 1518 owner of one of the largest modern printing houses in Cracow, previously head of a printing house in Vienna; bachelor of Arts at Cracow University (1499); typographer of the royal chancellery of Sigismund I Jagiellon (SZWEJKOWSKA, p. 80-82; KAWECKA-GRYCZOWA, MAŃKOWSKA, p. 325-357)⌋
Excessit vivis pi{n}gnora cuncta simul
Musophilos inter Lares habitoque priores
Mittit Maecenas ms. Moecenas(!) ⌈MaecenasMaecenas ms. Moecenas(!) ⌉ hinc tibi Musa vale.