Note 276 — Chapter V
Reading edition
Nicolaus Clenardus Latomo Suo S.D., Epistole, Antverpiæ, 1566, pp. 20-4, passim. See p. 234 for the historic incident of the drinking cup, broken by Vasæus, and so impossible to replace, after a search through the whole Spanish village, that the rest of the party were obliged to drink out of their hands. As to expenses, Clenardus scoffs at the poets who sing of "Auriferum Tagum." "Aurum auferendum" would better express it, he found.