Epithalamion protreptikon

Hail, gray old man: hail, my Compater co-father/godfather: counting years
Like Pylius Nestor of Pylos, known for his longevity, may you bear mild fates.
Live long: and teach Christ: detesting all wickedness:
Live as a father of the fatherland: and farewell forever.
AND YOU, the younger one, who gained the name Coccius
Companion to the Bridegroom: rejoicing in the flood of sacred water:
Express the Father with your own virtues:
Whence the father may carry praise, whence the son may carry it.
The divine Elisabetha long ago entrusted her Temple to you:
You were previously a happy Minister of Peter’s.
"Weave the last things with the first with faithful study:
"In what step you began, may you go accordingly.
"Thus Basel will remain greater from you from now on:
"And with the father removed, you will be another Coccius:

O excellent of spirit, and most learned of the Law,
Gentle AMERPACHIUS, fourth, be present for me.
O most beautiful gem of praiseworthy men:
Who prevail especially with courteous gravity:
And who render the great father with happy acts:
Who was once the honor of the Rauracian Basel's region city:
Now his bones rest softly in the lap of the earth:
His high mind went to the Heavenly regions.
Whom the great Erasmus made his heir while dying:
Was he not the greatest in judgment?
Should it displease others, whom the great Erasmus made of higher value?
And who gave power to his own wealth?
You are candid: foremost; loving of piety, and equity:

The younger Coccius, who was first Deacon to his father at St. Peter's: now pastor of the Church at St. Elisabeth's.

Commendation of Dr. Basilius Amerpachius: a man of the best and most upright citizen: who had his first wife from the family of the Bride.