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Its name, Graecismus, was based upon a chapter, the eighth, devoted to the elementary study of Greek a feature which constituted an advance on the current grammars of the age. A few extracts will show the character of the assistance it offered to the would-be Greek scholar. Cf. Gerasmus and Hierasmus as variations of the name Herasmus or Erasmus.
The dame looked him in the face with a peculiar expression as she replied, "Smith! ay, truly is there a smith what wouldst ha' wi' un, mon?" "To shoe my horse, good dame," answered Tressiliany; "you may see that he has thrown a fore-foot shoe." "Master Holiday!" exclaimed the dame, without returning any direct answer "Master Herasmus Holiday, come and speak to mon, and please you."
"Ay, ay, do ye show him, Master Herasmus," said the old dame, who was, perhaps, desirous to get her house freed of her guest; "a' must needs go when the devil drives."
"I pray, sir, let Quintilian be for the present, and answer, in a word and in English, if your learning can condescend so far, whether there is any place here where I can have opportunity to refresh my horse until I can have him shod?" "Now, God yield ye for it, Master Herasmus," said the good Gammer, "and grant that little Dickie may be the better for his accident!
Up to the time when he became better acquainted with Greek, he used the form Herasmus. Later on he regretted that he had not also given that name the more correct and melodious form Erasmius. On a few occasions he half jocularly called himself so, and his godchild, Johannes Froben's son, always used this form.
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