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

Preface and examination of Cicero's poem on Archias, read by Fabio Capella.
Whatever makes the auditor benevolent, which is to delight the judges; another which makes them attentive, because the praise and magnitude of the name seems to be able to provide three things, because it is consistent with the dignity of the arts. It makes them teachable as regards the defense; let him praise as when the speech offers, or is judicial, or extra-judicial; it is seen that it needs per se; it was manifest the kind that admits us, it does not prevail, or according to the kind of speaking; whatever is praised, or vituperated. It is due by law for its own name, that Archias might be kept in the city, [the case] is fortified by the kind that is made by himself. It is defended by Cicero, which coincides with the demonstrative: which the notable Cicero extols, also that it made admiration by name, that according to the name of the poem, it is not a demonstrative part but a judicial one. For all praise is referred to the defense of Archias, as if it is seen as great in its kind, it is held by such a discipline. By arms it is rightly taken to have been for the poet Archias.

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