and

And after that one of the race and blood

And after that one of the race and blood

And after many lords, and after men

And after many lords, and after men

To Ares dear, and after the young babes,

And after the passing of six hundred years

And decades two of Rome's dictatorship,

And warlike, the initial of whose name

Begins the letters, and fast binding thee,

Before him Thrace and Sicily shall crouch,

And of a woman unenslaved who falls

Under the spear. And laws will he ordain

For peoples and put all things under him;

And also in the noble earth he showed

Great marvelous seasons, and with them showed signs.

The might of Rome and of the illustrious Latins

Shall bear rule, and with his initial be

Numbers three hundred, and he shall destroy

The Medes and arrow-hurling Parthians;

And he himself by his power shall subvert

The high-gate city; and again shall come

Evil to Egypt and the Assyrians,

And to the Colchian Heniochi,

And to those by the waters of the Rhine,

And he himself shall ravage afterwards

Which is devising evils. And then he

And afterwards shall rule another man

Weaving guile, and the initial of his name

Will show the number three; and he much gold

Shall gather; and with him there shall not be

But peace shall come, and Ares shall desist

From wars; and he shall make known many things

And many lawless things will he perform,

And put around the neck of Romans pain

Trusting in divination; and the heads

And famine shall seize Cappadocians,

And Thracians, Macedonians, and Italians.

And Thracians, Macedonians, and Italians.

And Egypt shall alone feed numerous tribes;

And the king himself beguiling secretly

Shall bury; and against the king they all

And again there shall rule another lord

Of the number of twice ten; and then shall come

Unto the Sauromatians and to Thrace

And the Triballi, famed for hurling darts,

Wars and sad cares; and Roman Ares shall

Wars and sad cares; and Roman Ares shall

Tear all in pieces. And a fearful sign

Of the Italians and Pannonians;

And there shall be at the mid hour of day

Dark night around them and then from the heaven

A shower of stones; and thereupon the lord

And vigorous judge of the Italians

And dreadful, numbering fifty; and from all

And dreadful, numbering fifty; and from all

An end of his own race and stir all things,

Putting to death and daring countless things;

And he shall cleave the mountain of two seas,

And sprinkle it with gore. And out of sight

And sprinkle it with gore. And out of sight

And while he rules there shall be peace profound

And not the fears of men; and from the ocean

And not the fears of men; and from the ocean

Flowing, and cleaving by Ausonia,

Shall come untrodden water; and around

And he himself an actor will contend

With voice and cithara, and sing a song

With voice and cithara, and sing a song

And leave the royal power, and perishing

And leave the royal power, and perishing

After him three shall rule and two of them

And in addition to these shall be one

Of the third letter; and one here, one there,

Phœnicia and destroy Assyria.

And every nation shall upon thee tread.

Shalt thou come and shalt see young children serve

Among unfriendly men and with the wives,

And every means of life and wealth shall perish;

And every means of life and wealth shall perish;

And many wars and fights and homicides,

And many wars and fights and homicides,

And many wars and fights and homicides,

Famines, and pestilences, and confusion

Famines, and pestilences, and confusion

And in contending warriors glory much.

And (one) of these shall be a noble man

And lordly, whose name shall three hundred hold;

And after him a powerful warlike man

And then shall there be over all the world

And cities shall be under his control

And of themselves be subject. For to him

And then shall famine waste Pannonia

And all the Celtic land, and shall destroy

And all the Celtic land, and shall destroy

One here, another there. And there shall be

Structures and ornament and what may seem

Structures and ornament and what may seem

Yet greater anywhere. And the great king

Shall have a fondness for these and love them

Above the others far (and there are many);