of

At times appropriating words of mine

Until the end of baneful death and life.

And they who dwell in the land of fair corn

Beside the streams of Nile; and among all

Come suddenly, possessed of beastly soul,

Of fearful battle among all the tribes.

All Thrace, and toil of Ares on the isles

Of numbers ten times fifty. And short-lived

Of this one rule, beginning with his name

Not of Zeus, not of Amnion shall they call

Not of Zeus, not of Amnion shall they call

Of Cronos as they all imagine him.

And cities he of many mortal men

And war shall hold possession of the midst

Of the Cilicians and Assyrians;

But kings of lofty spirit shall embrace

The dreadful state of heart-consuming strife.

Ares of Pella shall in Egypt found,

Devourers of the people, arrogant

Shall drink the blood of all tribes, shall forthwith

Of his race, and the same name to them all.

And there shall be a bride of Egypt then

Of Macedonian lord, queen Alexandria,

Famed nourisher of cities, shining fair

Then shall the land of black soil have more fruits.

But the new world of black soil and fair corn,

The numbers of two hundred years and three

Of all of them, but there shall issue forth

Of all of them, but there shall issue forth

A female root, a bane of mortal men,

Betrayer of her kingdom. But they shall

Thereafter of itself; and there shall be

There shall be of the land by Nilus' streams

Of the number twenty; and she will demand

Of gold and silver; but from her own men

And battles and great slaughter of mankind.

Examples not at all of happy men,

But tyrants, and there be of thousands chiefs

And of ten thousands, and the overseers

Of popular assemblies under law,

Ill-fated all their days; and of these last

Whom carrying in their hands the youth of Rome

But when thou shalt come to an end of time

Who is thy founder, child of the wild beast,

And dreadful Ares of the glittering helm

For round the walls of thy land there shall be

Thou shalt give the whole land by way of dower

For thou shalt leave possessed of shameless soul;

And store of all good things, a nourisher

Of cities, she shall feed sheep-eating race

Of fearful men. All, to how many beasts,

On account of that people, whom of old

On account of that people, whom of old

Of toils and wailings, and didst put a plow

For what thou didst unlawfully of old,

Of goodly towers shall go; and then shall all

An oracle-singer of necessity.

BUT come now, hear of me the mournful time

Of sons of Latium; and first of all

Of sons of Latium; and first of all

Of sons of Latium; and first of all

After the kings of Egypt were destroyed,

For Philip a dead body (not of Zeus,

Of Ammon not true things were prophesied),

And after that one of the race and blood

Of king Assaracus, who came from Troy,

Even he who cleft the violence of fire,

The children of the beast that feeds on sheep,

And after the passing of six hundred years

And decades two of Rome's dictatorship,

Shall be of Rome the ruler, very strong

And warlike, the initial of whose name

O thou of goodly fruit, he shall be full

Of man-destroying Ares; thou shalt pay

By reason of the wickedness of rulers

By reason of the wickedness of rulers

And of a woman unenslaved who falls

Shall shine forth out of heaven in the mid days,

Then shall the secret Word of the Most High

The might of Rome and of the illustrious Latins

The might of Rome and of the illustrious Latins

And to those by the waters of the Rhine,

Weaving guile, and the initial of his name

Satiety of wealth, but plundering more

In divination of the greatest things,

Inquiring for the sake of means of life;

Inquiring for the sake of means of life;

There shall flow many little drops of blood.

And put around the neck of Romans pain

Of the assembly he will also slay.

Of the number of twice ten; and then shall come

Of the number of twice ten; and then shall come

Of the Italians and Pannonians;

And there shall be at the mid hour of day

A shower of stones; and thereupon the lord

And vigorous judge of the Italians

An end of his own race and stir all things,

And he shall cleave the mountain of two seas,

And sprinkle it with gore. And out of sight

And not the fears of men; and from the ocean