Apo kōpēs eis to bēma: Positiones Peri tēs tōn katamēniōn epochēs

to strive for brevity. Meanwhile, because the wide field of your praises carries me away, I call myself back and return to you, Magnificent Lord IOANNES, Commissioner, who, if you had absolutely nothing else than the name of your father, Lord FRIDERICUS, a great man, would nonetheless have to be assigned a most noble place among the most preeminent. For he, noble by birth, became far nobler by virtue and erudition, and succeeded to such a degree that, about to deliver an oration to the most serene Prince of Venice and his Senate, he offered and performed it in either the German, Latin, or Italian languages, as it pleased the Prince himself. Since this virtue, erudition, and eminence of his had long since become known to our Raetians, they both called him and wished to have him as an ornament of the Fatherland; and therefore they also appointed him Commissioner of the County of Clavenna, with the approval of gods and men. He had as his father, your grandfather, Lord RODOLPHUS, a man distinguished in military matters and the administration of the Republic, whom I remember all the more willingly because he left behind your cousin, Lord RODOLPHUS, son of Lord Caspar, a youth most exercised in the Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and German languages, not so much as a successor of the name, but of the virtues; about whom a certain hope shines for me that he will be a great citizen of our Republic. If now time and opportunity allowed me to add something about other Salici of yours, Lord DIETEGANUS, ruler of ten jurisdictions, and Knight, Strenuous Lord HERCULES, Rodolphus, Augustinus, Antonius, Horatius, and countless others who have administered the most desired supreme government of the Republic in our homeland, and have performed preeminent embassies to various Princes and Republics, and have gained immortal glory and praise for themselves by great deeds in war and peace, I would have touched upon the entire illustrious family of the Salici even if only in passing. But I see that I must desist from this narration now, if only for the reason that, because the Salici mother has happened to me note: implying he is related to the family by marriage or maternal lineage, anyone might odiously object that I praise that family as most ornate and most ample for that reason. But however things are constituted, this I truly affirm, if it were my lot in time to be engaged in a panegyrical term: encomiastico praising/panegyrical style of writing