Analyticae Quaestiones & Responsiones de pane vitae

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Concerning which, on the twelfth of January,
1587, there will be a debate, presided over by
Johann Jakob Grynaeus:
responding

CHRISTIANO AD PORTVM,
the younger, of Bern.

TO THE
Most distinguished youth, Master
JOHANN SCHOMMARTIUS,
of Jülich.

Pindar.
Original Greek: Τὸν ἄκυμον φθόνον ἀμειβόμενον τὰ καλὰ ἔργα.
"I will not be willing to contend with men of old, who have rewarded noble deeds."

BASLE, Year 1587.

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