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

Masters
7 Kings
Ph: 7.?
106
1 Kings

more savage its forces
[The river] snatched away the Binomius [a section of the river], and not yet huge,
peoples and small
It washed the Elysian fields, the Arians, and the shore of the Paeones,
And the Lygii, finally swollen by the snatched waters,
in rivers very deep
It enters the Euxine [Black] Sea with a sixfold flood,
extremity in the swamp
And loses its final head in the muddy sedge.
miracle
Here the people gaze in astonishment at the recently sent-down mysteries,
And everywhere, both men and inanimate objects
inscribe
Inscribe the insignia having slipped down from the pure heaven.
itself
The bloody [image] of the Cross, the notable sign of a clear triumph,
Is seen far and wide, the sponge, the whips,

are discerned
The seamless tunic, the nails are seen,
They are discerned soaked in much blood; the weapon
Which had parted the sacred side with savage force

Pledge... for the cross...

Is depicted; the watcher, the bird [the rooster] remarkable for its crest,
three
And the three-fold dice shine, which the famous soldier
Had cast, having drawn lots for the garments of the innocent Christ.

Gallina...

I do not sing of things unknown; Caesar showed them, and we ourselves
Have seen them, Germany produced countless witnesses.
Where the Rhine is poured out from the thin source in the Rhaetian Alps,
And flows more abundantly into the plains below,

It is verified; [one] saw the lake which, wandering through the soft [land],
full of fish
Washed the walls of the fishy city beneath it,
descendants
Which the offspring of Constantine, having conquered the East,

the West purple
Returning to the western lands with starry purple,
Founded and marked with his own name; whose
is reported
Prince (as they report) Picus was descended from the blood.