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

demands?
poe[...]?

Since the prince of the underworld has removed the Tartarean infernal/hellish furies from the cavernous depths, and has let loose the swarms of sins that reveal the hidden things of the Stygian spring, whose deadly and dark opening has long since draped the air in decaying smoke; from this, the narrow path of life is hidden and obscured, and from there, the insane and senseless forgetfulness of life tempts the wretched people of the cross.

Since vices?
calamity? [and] joy
pestilences
destruction
thirsty
Discord
Ambition
Gluttony
Filthy Venus
Envy
Thus with sevenfold
Beast of many
ca: 20:

Hence the queen of evil, Discordia Discord, perhaps indignant at the adverse/left-hand omens, rushes thirsty for blood into slaughter and wars. Discordia runs ahead of the wheels with hair torn, to see if the success of war might perhaps smile upon her. From there, Ambitio Ambition erupts, puffed up with pride in favorable circumstances, and then the unbridled love of gain, Auaritia Avarice, creeps in. Then Gula Gluttony, and from every limb, Luxuria Lust Filthy Venus, which, having drained strength too much, both brings forth cowardly souls and torments Inuidia Envy cruelly, and wastefully destroys the wealth that has been acquired. Thus the beast of many heads stalks about, shackled by sevenfold chains, by which with a sinister attack

Shame grows?
to fill reg[...]?
nas[...]?
R[...]?
p[...]?
int[...]?
ope[...]?
lust [and] [...]?
constellations [...]?
permits more?

• Diodorus Siculus: Book 2: Ch 4: [and] 11:
  Orosius: Book 2, Ch 3:
  St. Augustine: Book 5. On the City of God, Ch 1.
  Bede: Book 1, History of the English, Ch 14.

• We read that once proud Babylon was cast down, which neither Cyrus would have devastated with a cruel army, nor would a hundred gates have shaken with the frequent ram, nor would the lying augur, intent on the various courses of the stars, have played with a false doctrine of creation, had it not first perfidiously swallowed the hostile customs which our world, alas, to its shame, has long since invited.

almost
like a turnip
seizes
conquered
seized.
Diodorus: Book 3:
sea v[...]
plague [...]
here [...]
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