Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus was a Dutch theologian and philosopher in the 1500s.

Something that’s “fulsome” has a lot of some characteristic. It can also mean “overdone,” and is commonly used to mean “too much praise.”

The source is from an ancient Greek word meaning something like: “large assembly to honor a god.”

This refers to any authority structure that consists of three people. Apparently this has been so common throughout history that it has its own word. It’s Latin for “three men.”