ERYCIUS PUTEANUS The Latinized name of Hendrik van der Putte (1574–1646), a renowned Flemish humanist and scholar.

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YOU COME AS A TRUE PUGILIST original: "VERVS PYCTA VENIS," an anagram for "ERYCIVS PVTEANVS." In the logic of the time, an anagram was thought to reveal a person's hidden character.

P Y C T A, a pugilist or boxer, in Greek original: πύκτης (pyktes): a word which the Latin authors also adopt. In the writings of Columella Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella, a Roman authority on agriculture, a victorious rooster is called a pyctes. In Pliny Pliny the Elder, author of Natural History, Euthymus the pugilist A famous Olympic boxer from the 5th century BCE was always a victor at Olympia, and was defeated only once. By whom? By Theagenes, as Pausanias A Greek traveler and geographer noted; and in what manner? By trickery. Therefore, he was not truly defeated: for this reason, Theagenes was ordered to pay a talent A significant unit of currency in the ancient world as a fine.