Note 114
From Chapter 66 of the Decline & Fall

The Greek language was introduced into the university of Oxford in the last years of the 15th century, by Grocyn, Linacer, and Latimer, who had all studied at Florence under Demetrius Chalcocondyles. See Dr. Knight's curious Life of Erasmus. Although a stout academical patriot, he is forced to acknowledge that Erasmus learned Greek at Oxford, and taught it at Cambridge.

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