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Erasmus 500 years on: A short note to his close friend Goclenius in Leuven

Today, the new academic year started in Leuven. By a historical coincidence, Erasmus wrote on this day 500 years ago to the professor of Latin at his Trilingual College (Collegium Trilingue) in the same city, his close friend Conrad Goclenius (ca. 1490-1539) from Mengeringhausen (today in the German state of Hessen). Erasmus touches on some …

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500 years of Greek grammar in the Low Countries: An homage to Adrien Amerot’s Compendium (1520)

In the new "Ad fontes" feature of Adendros, I want to offer English (work) translations of short source texts or text excerpts from the history of (Greek) language studies which struck me as particularly interesting, enlightening, or enticing. Today: the preface to the first full-fledged grammar manual of Ancient Greek to be written in the …

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