Kasza Péter (szerk.): Stephanus Brodericus - Epistulae (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, Series Nova XIV., Argumentum Kiadó - Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest, 2012)

Appendix

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Caspar Ursinus Velius to István Brodarics1 Manuscript used: [Original is lost]

Published: AliliL Jcnö-HiiCiLDŰS István, Analecta recentiora ad historiam renoscentium in Hungária litterarum spectantia, Budapest, 1906, 469.

Ad reverendissimum dominum Stephanum Brodericium episcopum Synniensem etc, inclyti regni Hungáriáé cancellarium

Optimus ut fieres dux inde autorque fuisti, lam, Stephane, a teneris unguibus ipse tibi,

Ut fieres tantus, maior licet esse mereris,

Suspicor hoc aequos sic voluisse Deos.

5 Si tibi quottidie magni cumulentur honores,

Non melior fieri, maior ut esse potes.

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Ad eundem

Optimus es, summo et nunc munere fungeris,2 olim Perfecta est bonitas iam tua, crescit honos.

3

Ad eundem

Doctus es et bonus et sapiens, haec singula magnos Cum faciant, quaeso, trina quid efficiunt.

4

Ad eundem venientem Strigonium

Salvus venerit opto Brodericus Lyncaeus non mihi lippus intuendus,

Cuius lumina si videre possent,

Quantum mens videt, Argus alter esset.

1 The poems, if they were not provided with the addressing afterwards, were possibly written in the spring of 1526, because Brodarics received his appointment as Chancellor on 11 March and became Bishop of Szeréin in April. Allusion to earning the highest position in poem 2 seems to confirm this.

: An obvious allusion to earning the position of Chancellor.

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