The jealous Italians were desirous of keeping
a monopoly of Greek learning. When Aldus was about to
publish the Greek scholiasts on Sophocles and Euripides,
Cave (said they)
cave hoc facias, ne Barbari istis adjuti domi maneant, et pauciores in Italiam ventitent (Dr. Knight, in his Life of Erasmus, p. 365, from Beatus Rhemanus).