Staurostichon: A Poem on the Mysteries of the Lord's Cross

Preface and Cicero's speech for the poet Archias, noted by? Fabio Capella.

He leads the citizen with the audience when he intends to delight the presence, another because it is made proper, a third because he has judged concerning friends, he puts forward three things from the rhetorical faculty. For he must demonstrate where he might give, more amply in the oration, another is deliberative because it concerns persuasion and dissension. He directs the whole to the accusations and the response, praising what he has made in the oration, or the third judgment, which by these judgments is manifest and yet the page admits our truth? or regiment? to be made. Finally, praise is given for the whole. Concerning the status due and yet for the present, according to his own invincible expert skill, which is placed throughout Archias, the Archias in the city among the proconsul? is? this notable oration defended by Cicero. He demonstrates and convinces, which the matter of Cicero with? the other two by which he has acted, helps the person and convinces by poetry, also the greatest oration? terminates, since much experience in chaff referring to the lack of substance or validity is not demonstrative but judicial. For all praise is referred to the defense of Archias, as if he is seen to be in need in such a kind of discipline, he repels these? in the case of the poet Archias.

Mirrored bleed-through from the verso side of the page shows the word "FINIS" and a colophon stating "Lugduni in vico Mercurij / Anno domini Millesimo quin- / quagesimo septimo / mense decembri" Lyon, in Mercury Street, in the year of our Lord 1557, in the month of December. Below the text is a printer's device featuring a central stylized plant or staff flanked by the initials 'V' (or 'D') and 'I' within a decorative border.