En lector, librum damus vere aureum, planeque scholasticum, quo continentur haec

We have either corrected the Greek, which was corrupt, or we have informed the young students of our own opinion as to what should be read. Finally, we have expounded the whole little book, described in Greek and Latin side by side, with a brief explanation. We hope that this effort of ours will be not only welcome, but also useful to good young men.

To you, however, most prudent Consuls and Senators, we have dedicated this work of ours because it was already long known to us with how much zeal you strive so that your youth might be instructed not only in piety and good morals (of which very many pious and sober precepts are found in the Admonitions of our Nilus) but also in good letters by faithful teachers. And there was a great argument for this, because when I was still a boy, many young men from your city and school, having been moderately instructed, would hurry in groups to other schools, seeking greater and higher studies. And I had a certain familiar acquaintance with some honest young men, your sons and citizens, who were learning along with us in our sweetest fatherland, Sorau, under one teacher, a most learned man, Master Henricus Theodorus, your citizen, now, however, a most worthy inspector of the Church in the Duchy of Liegnitz in Silesia: with whom we later lived familiarly in Wittenberg.

We therefore hoped that this inscription of ours would be welcome, not only to you, most wise men, but also to our old and beloved teacher, Master Henricus Theodorus: who up to this point does not cease to embrace us and our studies lovingly and honorably. Furthermore, to those of your citizens with whom we once lived in a friendly and connected way as youths, both at home and elsewhere: of whom most, as I think and hear, now teach in schools and churches. Just as this should be pleasant for you, and for the teacher whose common work we used, so it is also pleasing to us to remember that a friendship and habit existed between us and such young men, who wasted neither time nor expense,