But Vives realized the folly of adding more fuel to the flames, and the sentences were in all cases either mitigated or revoked.
"Cuba, Old and New"
Albert Gardner Robinson
I have taken notice of most of them already, as I shall of St. Austin and Ludovicus Vives by and by.
"A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients"
Edward Tyson
Vives himself, who witnessed the contests, says that, "when the contending parties had exhausted their stock of verbal abuse, they often came to blows; and it was not uncommon in these quarrels about universals, to see the combatants engaging not only with their fists, but with clubs and swords, so that many have been wounded and some killed."
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)"
Isaac D'Israeli