Note 1258 — Chapter XVIII · (continued 2)

“Corp. ref.,” 3, p. 383: “Equidem studeo omni officio tueri concordiam nostræ academiæ, et scis me etiam hoc genere artis aliquid adhibere solere,” etc. It is possible that the above reference to a “plaga,” or some other similar passage, gave rise to the singular misapprehension of certain polemics, viz. that Luther had been in the habit of coercing Melanchthon by striking him and boxing his ears, surely one of the most curious, and at the same time baseless, of all the legends concerning Luther.