Gratulationes d. Martino Aichmanno Schorndorffensi, viro virtute, & doctrina praestantissimo, cum utriusque iuris doctor in Tubingensi schola anno 1577. XI. die Februarii, publice crearetur

He who attempts to learn the laws and rights of the forum,
So that he may know what is right and pious in any place:
He attempts to commit his ship to the vast sea
And strives to travel upon a stormy path.
For whatever the whole circle of the world contains,
All of it, the law calls under its own sharp rulings.
Whatever men do, whatever the voice of the mouth utters,
All of it is subjected to the pious judgment of the law.
Happy is he who prepared oars and nautical sails
Before he went upon these waters of the vast sea.
For he who dares to promise himself peaceful voyages,
And does not fear the swollen Boreas the North Wind and cruel gusts:
He will choose his oars in his own time,
When he holds his course in the middle of the fragile vessel.
For when the winds rise on the stormy sea,
Ah, the miserable man will go shipwrecked in the liquid water.
And uncertain of things, finding neither what he should flee nor what he should seek,
He will be deprived of all help.
The way is indeed safe while the voyage is at the first shore,
And the anger of the south wind Notus has not yet raged;
But when the land and the shore recede from your eyes,
And your skiff wanders in the middle of the water,
Then at last the winds blow through with a vast roar,
And the great storm shakes the shattered ship.
From here Bartolus Bartolus de Saxoferrato, 14th-century jurist rises swollen from the cold North,
Baldus Baldus de Ubaldis, 14th-century jurist bears battles with an opposing front.

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