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hprints-00683151, version 2 - 19 Mar 2013 [2] Quibus de rebus maxima mecum 117 ipse cogitatione 118 contendi, facturus ne verba in publico essem, an tacitus permitterem 119 suo labi flumina impetu. Videbatur homini privato atque inerudito tacendum fore in eruditissimorum coetu virorum, quales hinc atque hinc 120 video, quorum consilio et auctoritate universus orbis recte regi gubernarique possit. Neque dignum existimabam, ut ego homuncio os aperirem, ubi non doctores modo scientiarum, sed parentes 121 omnium facultatum adessent. [3] Ceterum cum me vestro adstrictum 122 consortio meminissem, cum jurisjurandi a me suscepti verba repeterem, loquendum penitus existimavi oportere 123 , si juramento vellem satisfacere, cujus antehac numquam contempsi religionem. Namque et ubi potui et ubi licuit semper 124 huic concilio favi, vestraque opera ubique gentium {1v} publicavi, atque ubi verbis esse non potui, scriptis interfui. Namque, ita me Deus amet, semper hoc concilium magnifeci, semper esse saluti Christianorum putavi necessarium; atque ideo magno affectu erga ipsum semper accensus extiti 125 , cui me ita 126 dedi, ut corpus et quidquid extra corpus habeo libenter pro eo sim expositurus. [4] Indignum igitur 127 atque absurdum putabam verba pro eo non effundere, pro quo sententia sit neque corpori parcere. Quod si quis patriae obnoxius est vitam exponere, quanto magis concilio? Ac 128 si nullum discrimen concilii causa fugiendum est, quis verba inanemque linguae sonum retineat? Quis taciturnitatem laudet, ubi usui futurus est sermo? Mulieri, ut 129 inquit Homerus, taciturnitas decus affert, sed non item 130 viro. 117 cum C 118 ipse cogitatione : cogitatione ipse M 119 pretermitterem C 120 inde Z 121 patres D, M 122 adscriptum C; astrictum M, N, Z 123 omit. Z 124 et add. N 125 accensus extiti : extiti B, C; extiti accensus M 126 me ita : ita me Z 127 itaque add. M 128 At D, M, Z 129 omit. N 130 idem N 44
hprints-00683151, version 2 - 19 Mar 2013 [2] For this reason, I have been thinking intensely about whether I should intervene in the debate, or silently let the river take its own course. On the one hand, it seemed that a private and unlearned man ought to remain silent in the assembly of most learned men that I see around me. Indeed, the whole world may be rightly ruled and governed by their counsel and authority! And I thought it would be improper for an insignificant person like myself me to open his mouth in an assembly where not only doctors in the various branches of knowledge 131 , but also council fathers with all kinds of qualifications 132 were present. [3] On the other hand, when I considered my obligations towards your fellowship, and when I repeated to myself the words of my oath 133 , I found it necessary to speak up if I were to keep it. For I have always highly respected that oath and have supported this council wherever I could and had the possibility. I have spoken about your works everywhere, and where I could not speak I wrote. Always – and may God love me for it! - did I praise this council; always did I consider it necessary for the salvation of the Christians; and always have I been so passionately engaged in the cause of the council, to which I have given myself, that I would gladly sacrifice my own body and everything else, I have, in its service. [4] Thus it seemed to me that it would be unseemly and absurd not to speak up in favour of something for which I am ready to give my life. If you have an obligation to give your life for your country, you have an even greater obligation to give it for the council. And if you should shun no danger for the sake of the council, then why should you withhold your words and voice? Who will praise your silence if your speech would be useful? Homer says that silence makes a woman beautiful, but this does not apply to a man. 134 131 “scientia” 132 “parentes *D, M have patres+ omnium facultum”. Meaning unclear 133 Oaths: at this time oaths were still being taken very seriously and formed the basis of important contractual engagements, cf. section 65 134 This is a direct quote from Leonardi Bruni: De Militia, 1422: Mulieri inquit Homerus taciturnitas decus affert, sed non item viro. Bruni, p. 384. The quote has not been found in Homer, but Sophocles, Ajax, 293 has: Gynaíksi kósmon è sigé phèrei. Quoted after the Loeb edition of 1994. St. Paul alludes to this passage in 1 st Corinthians 14, 34 45
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