Note 879 — Chapter XVII · (continued 3)

Mathesius, “Aufzeichnungen,” p. 117 f. Cp. in the Table-Talk of the Mathesius Collection, ed. Kroker, p. 156 f., a similar account of this conversation dating from 1540, 11-19 June. It begins: “Ego occallui sum rusticus et durus Saxo [a pun on the Latin word] ad eiusmodi X” (Luther probably made use of a word against which the pen of the writer revolted. Kroker’s note). Later: “Ipsi (papistae) occidunt homines, nos laboramus pro vita et ducimus plures uxores.” The end of this discourse, as Loesche and Kroker have shown, contains verbal reminiscences of Terence, with whom Luther must have been well acquainted from the days of his youth.