4/15/2023 0 Comments Erasmus de copia pdf![]() 1 Whence we see it befalls not a few mortals that they strive for this divine excellence diligently, indeed, but unsuccessfully, and fall into a kind of futile and amorphous loquacity, as with a multitude of inane thoughts and words thrown together without discrimination, they alike obscure the subject and burden the ears of their wretched hearers. ![]() DAVID RIX Formerly Professor of English Pennsylvania State University THIRD PRINTING MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY PRESS MILWAUKEE WISCONSIN 1999 Library of Congress Catalogue Number: 63-10892 © 1963, 1999, The Marquette University Press Milwaukee, Wisconsin ISBN 0-87462-212-3 Printed in the United States of America Second Printing 1982 Third Printing 1999ĭesiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam ON COPIA OF WORDS BOOK I CHAPTER I That the Aspiration to Copia Is Dangerous Just as there is nothing more admirable or more splendid than a speech with a rich copia of thoughts and words overflowing in a golden stream, so it is, assuredly, such a thing as may be striven for at no slight risk, because, according to the proverb, Not every man has the luck to go to Corinth. ![]() ![]() DESIDERIUS ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAM ON COPIA OF WORDS AND IDEAS (De Utraque Verborum ac Rerum Copia) Translated from the Latin With an Introduction by DONALD B.
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