In which of the following lines from his Adages does Erasmus seem to chide Henry VIII for being overly materialistic?
a. “What could be more idiotic than to be up in arms so childishly for the sake of a chit from a barbarous land?”
b. “How childishly he goes crying to his mother!”
c. “Hesiod . . . calls princes ‘gift-greedy.’”
d. “Plato wrote that the only way for the state to attain happiness was for the supreme command to be given to philosophers.”
Answer: c
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