cs, he had no sense, because he never traveled beyond his Roman
and Grecian studies. The bitterness of his feelings found vent in
subtle and sometimes malicious scorn. Even in presence of his scholars
and house-companions, whose number, as he always kept a boarding house,
was seldom under twenty, he allowed himself to call [OE]colampadius
"_[OE]codiabolos_" (House-devil), or "_Schlampadius_." It can readily
be imagined that when this became known it created a dislike toward him
among his former admirers, and especially among the young. He received
an unequivocal proof of it, when passing through Zurich. Having arrived
there with wet garments, he asked his host for the loan of a dry coat
that he might walk out. The latter assured him, perhaps maliciously,
that he had only a yellow one to spare, which he durst not offer him.
In spite of the strange color Glareanus put it on; but scarcely had he
appeared on the street, when he saw himself surrounded by a troop of
mocking school-boys, to whom he had probably been betrayed. "Ay! ay!
Glareanus, how you are tricked out! We must learn your verses," and
similar things were shouted in his ears. On his return, the landlord
met him with the words: "Out of the mouths of children and sucklings
hast thou prepared praise for thyself." His opinion of the age became
more and more gloomy. His secret grudge against it is particularly
visible in his letter to AEgidius Tschudi, who, like him, had remained
true to the Catholic confession. "The young men of the present day," he
wrote in 1550, "resemble those of Sodom and Gomorah. Drunkenness,
perfidy, ungodliness, dishonoring of the holy have overpowered all
their natures. Never was the world so corrupt as now." And yet, at that
very time, he had often so many hearers in Freiburg, that, instead of
the usual lecture-room the _Aula_ (the hall for examinations and
celebrations) had to be given up to him. He continued to exercise his
chosen calling with unwearied activity, until he closed his eventful
life in the seventy-fourth year of his age. It is remarkable that,
notwithstanding his dislike to the Reformation, the General Inquisition
at Madrid, as late as the year 1667, included him among "the authors of
cursed memory, whose works, published or yet to be published, are
forbidden without exception."

Footnote 8: The polemical treatise of Erasmus on this same subject
appeared earlier; besides, Erasmus was not actually a teacher in the
University