ERASMUS, so deservedly famous for his admirable writings, the vast extent of his learning, his great candour and moderation, and for being one of the chief restorers of the Latin tongue on this side the Alps, was born at Rotterdam, on the 28th of October, in the year 1467. The anonymous author of his life commonly printed with his Colloquies (of the London edition) is pleased to tell us that _de anno quo natus est apud Batavos, non constat_. And if he himself wrote the life which we find before the Elzevir edition, said to be _Erasmo autore_, he does not particularly mention the year in which he was born, but places it _circa annum 67 supra millesintum quadringentesimum_. Another Latin life,…
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