prosecution of those articles thus far. I, however, who am neither cruel to my fame, nor prodigal of my honor, nor wish to be a deserter of my innocence, nor wish or ought to be reckoned by an injurious name before the Caesar and all clear and upright men, when I had finally understood that those articles had lain deserted and, as it were, buried in your hands for many months, I petition your clarity and urgently request that a transcript of those articles be given to me and your decree be interposed upon them, prepared, if there are any errors, to amend them, if any things were perversely understood, to declare them, and to vindicate my own innocence and integrity from the crime of impiety and the injury of the slanderers, which, as I ask it as just and fair, I think you will not deny to me, as I shall continually perceive the rest in all things.

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of the Louvainists in an authentic transcript,

but transmitted without any interposed decree

of the senate.

Assertions of Agrippa.

From a certain book On the Vanity of the Sciences.

I. They falsely interpret Assertions for a Declamation.

II. They maliciously truncate the title, obscuring the scope of the entire declamation.