Status Updates From Erasme, Les Adages (French ...

Adage II iv 60 Crocodili lachrymae / Crocodeile tears.
“...there is ancient authority for the proverb (...in Apostolius 10.17), there even being a Greek verb krokodeilizein (to act the crocodile)...”

“Everything in the way of good authors in four languages—Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Chaldean— ...will be at their disposal...through this one man’s efforts...Aldus [the printer/ publisher] is building a library which knows no walls save those of the world itself.”