Kyria chere geram cuius ph[=i]lantr[)o]pos est bar, Per te doxa
     theos nect[=e]n [)e]t [)v]r[=a]n[)i]c[)i]s ymas.

In the commentary we are told that Kyria means the Virgin:  but we are to be careful not to write it with two r’s, for kirrios means a pig (I suppose [Greek:  choiros]), and it would never do to say Kirrieleyson.  Chere is of course [Greek:  chaire], salue.  Geran (geram in the text) is interpreted sanctus, and seems from a lengthy discussion of it to be connected with [Greek:  geron] and [Greek:  ieros].[10] Philantropos (notice the quantities) is Christ, the Saviour.  ’Bar Grece est filius Latine.’  ’Necten in Greco est venire Latine:  vnde dicit Pristianus in primo minoris, antropos necten, i.e. homo venit.’ (For this remarkable form I can only suggest [Greek:  enthein] or [Greek:  hekein]:  -en is probably the infinitive; ne might arise from en; and ct, through tt, from th.) Ymas is explained as nobis, not vobis.  The construction of the distich is then given:  ’Hail, sacred queen, whose son is the lover of men; through thee divine and heavenly glory comes to us.’

Again: 

      ’Clauiculis firmis theos antropos impos et ir mis
       Figor ob infirmi cosmos delicta, patir mi.’

Impos = in pedibus.  Ir = a hand (probably [Greek:  cheir], transliterated into hir, and h dropped) and mis is explained as = mei, according to the form which occurs in Plautus and early Latin.  The lines are an address from Christ to God, and are interpreted:  ’O my father, I God and man am fastened with hard nails in my feet and hands (upon the cross) for the sins of a weak world.’

Another work dictated to Erasmus at Deventer was the metrical grammar of Eberhard of Bethune in Artois, composed in the twelfth century.  Its name, Graecismus, was based upon a chapter, the eighth, devoted to the elementary study of Greek—­a feature which constituted an advance on the current grammars of the age.  A few extracts will show the character of the assistance it offered to the would-be Greek scholar.

     [10] Cf.  Gerasmus and Hierasmus as variations of the name
          Herasmus or Erasmus.

      Quod sententia sit b[)o]l[)e] comprobat amphibol[=i]a,
        Quodque fides br[)o]g[)e] sit comprobat Allobroga.

The gloss explains the second line thus:  ’Dicitur ab alleos quod est alienum, et broge quod est fides, quasi alienus a fide’; and thus we learn that the Allobroges were a Burgundian people who were always breaking faith with the Romans.

      Constat apud Grecos quod tertia littera cima est,
        Est quoque dulce c[)i]m[=e]n, inde c[)i]m[=e]t[)e]rium;
      Est [)v]n[)i]uersal[=e] c[)a]t[)a], fitque c[)a]tholicus inde, ... 
        C[=a]ta breuis pariter, c[=a]talogus venit hinc. 
      Die decas esse decem, designans inde decanum ... 
        Delon obscurum, Delius inde venit. 
        Ductio sit gogos, hinc isagoga venit. 
        Estque geneth mulier, inde gen[=e]th[=e][=u]m.