vir siquidem fuit providus prudens, doctus eloquens, acer et hominum aevi loci populi sui ingeniosissimus quique indesinenter salva religione philosopharetur; et licet crinem barbamque non pasceret, pallium et clavam nunc inrideret, nunc etiam execraretur, a collegio tamen conplatonicorum solo habitu ac fide dissociabatur.
He was a man both provident and prudent, learned, eloquent, ardent, the most talented among men of his time, his country, and of his people, and one who ceaselessly devoted himself to philosophy without detriment to religion'indeed, although he did not let his hair and beard grow long, and although he sometimes ridiculed, sometimes even execrated the philosophers cloak and cudgel, it was only in his dress and in his religion that he parted company with the Platonic brotherhood.
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