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The publication in 1500 of Erasmus' Adagia brought about a trend to translate Latin and Greek proverbs and quotations into national languages.
Tyndale was born in Gloucestershire and attended Oxford and Cambridge, where the spirit of the recently departed Erasmus still glowed.
Ithought we'd settled the fight between free will and predestination with a sophomore reading of Erasmus, but lately, it's popping up all over life's syllabus.
Charles Darwin also stuttered; interestingly, his grandfather Erasmus Darwin suffered from the same condition, highlighting the fact that stuttering runs in families and is likely to have a genetic basis.
This error is a perpetuation of Erasmus, who published his Adagia (1500) in which, inter alia, appears the Pandora story in which he mistakes πυξις ( pyxis ) a smallish boxwood box for πιθος, the largest wine storage container.