Epithalamion protreptikon

Great in judgment: grave in religion.
Especially in your forensic causes, your huge
Faith has been watched: and favor of justice.
Basel rejoices to use your counsel happily:
Where other Laws are silent.
You unravel knots in disputes: and you know how to cut
The pending quarrel, before the thrones of the Judge.
And you penetrate with the sharp acumen of a clever mind:
What your father did before, you yourself do.
Star of the forum: ornament of the city: honor and gem of the Lyceum:
Light of the fatherland: to be held among the ancient Sophists:
Stream of eloquence: harbor for the studious:
Refuge for the needy: you do not allow the Fates to be hands i.e., you do not let the needy fall into the hands of the Fates/poverty.
Many an exile, driven by the hard turns of fortune,
Approaches you, found as an asylum.
The studious cohort approaches you: and asks for travel money:
To whom the means is thin: to whom the means at home is tight.
Your generous hand assists these with extended money:
And the needy person, filled by your help, dances.
Who, increased with coins, departs with an extended forehead:
And acts gladly with a grateful memory in his breast.
Candid Man: Gentle Man: loving ancestral virtue:
Show yourself easy: and exhilarate your cheeks.
The Bride calls you kinsman with a sincere breast:
The Bridegroom himself now calls you kinsman too.
For the Rudian wife was yours: a wife intact of blemish:
But the treacherous Fate took her long ago.
Whose death you still mourn: while with celibate life,