The LIV. ADVERTISEMENT.
A dangerous contention which arose amongst the Pedagogs in Parnassus upon a very ssight occasion, is appeased by Apollo.
YEsterday about eight of the clock a great alarm was sounded in the Gramarian Quarters, which made all the Vertuosi run to see what the matter might be: and they found that the Schoolmasters, Panegyrical writers and Commentarors, were fallen so foully together by the ears in Brigadoes, as there was much ado to part them The dispute which arose between them was, Whether the word Consumptum were to be written with a P, or onely with a T. Apollo was much troubled at this dispute, not onely for the mean cause of the quarrel, but for that Paulus Manutius (vvho vvas thought to be a chief actor in this brabble) hit Lambino in the face (vvho stifly maintained the contrary opinion) with a Roman stone, vvhereon Consumptum vvas vvritten vvith a P, vvherevvith he broke his nose. Apollo, vvho vvas at first much incensed at the Pedanticks mean folly, vvas so highly scandalized at this nevv excess, as he commanded the Pretor Urbano to rid Parnassus of that Sottish crevv of Pedants. But aftervvards, at the intreaties of Cicero, Quintillian, and others of the chiefest Literati of this Court, vvho interceded for those bravvling people, saying, That those Pedanticks could not fall out for any matter of moment, vvho vvere onely acquaint∣ed vvith slight affairs, his Majestie vvas appeased.