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 professors are so slow.^ I await their judgment, although I expect that they will be too prudent to mix in these foreign and hateful causes. Meanwhile, we have anticipated their sentence; wc judge each other and are judged by each other;* ignorant and learned alike, we all write poems.^

Eck impetuously scatters letters* around and distributes triumphal crowns. Leipsic alone brings forth simple Herodoti, critics, Aristarchi,*^ Momi/ and that kind of frogs without number. Leipsic, who was always dumb, has only on account of the debate begun to bark louder than many Scyllas. She is driven by wretched envy to try to establish the victory of our opponents by mere clamor. Truth will conquer.

I would send my little lectures on the Psaltery, but because you do not write whether you want them, or how many of them you have, I suppose you do not care for them. This man^ sells my last Resolutions against Eck. Lotther,® at Leipsic, is printing for me an apology^ against him, in which I refute the thirteen articles charged against me by the Fran- ciscans of Jiiterbok, and hatefully proved by Eck to be hereti- cal ; on my part I charge them with twenty- four articles, and the quarrel is getting warm.

They tell me my Commentary on Galatians is finished to-day.

Our illustrious elector is tempted by Miltitz with the golden rose.*® Miltitz boasted in Dresden, "Dr. Luther is in my

'7. e., in giriag judgnent on the Leipsic debate.

and to Eck'a reply.
 * Tkis refers to Melanchtbon's letter to Oecolampadius of July ai (supra, 163),


 * Scribimus indocti doctique poemata passim j^ cf, Jurenal, ▼{!. 53.

•C/. supra, Eck to Elector Frederic, no. 164.

•A proTcrlnalljr bitter critic.

'According to Erasmus' Adages, s. v., Momus was the child of Night and Sleep* who did nothing but find fault.


 * /. €., the bearer of the letter.

•Of Aue in Saxony, first found at Leipsic about 1500, as a printer. From 1518 he printed a number of Luther's things, and toward the end of 15x9* with types bought of Froben, and with his younger brother Michael (for Melchior and Michael Lotther were apparently not old Melchior's sons, as Enders thinks, is. 29), he started a press at Wittenberg. In 1525, on account of slanders about him, he returned to Leipsic, where he died in 1542. Enders, loc. cit., and v. 24.

^Contra malignum Eccii judicium, Weimar, ii. 621.

i(*On the golden rose cf. supra, January i, 15 19. Miltitz got the rose from the Fuggers at Augsburg and took it to Altenburg, where, in the absence of the elector, who lay sick at Lochau, he gave it, on September 25, to one of his

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