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Then shall the mightiest Caesars bear the rule

Shall for initial have the number ten,

Last Caesar stretching on the earth his limbs,

Whom carrying in their hands the youth of Rome

And twice ten, from the time when he shall rule

Who is thy founder, child of the wild beast,

Shall become king, man equal to the gods.

Then, Egypt, know the king that comes to thee;

And dreadful Ares of the glittering helm

For round the walls of thy land there shall be

Those lately wounded; and then to the couch

Shalt thou come to the dreadful man himself;

The wedlock, sharing one bed, is the end.

The wedlock, sharing one bed, is the end.

Thy royal power unto the Roman king

Thou shalt give the whole land by way of dower

As far as Libya and the dark-skinned men

To the resistless man. And thou shalt be

And thee, the stately, shall the encircling tomb

And thee, the stately, shall the encircling tomb

Adapted at the summits, beautiful,

Shall mourn thee and the dreadful king shall make

And then shall Egypt be the toiling slave

Who many years against the Indians bears

And with the river, the fruit-bearing Nile,

And with the river, the fruit-bearing Nile,

Upon their neck and irrigate the fields

With mortal tears. Therefore the Lord himself,

The imperishable God who dwells in heaven,

And when thou shalt come forward to the books

Then none shall call the God-seized prophetess

BUT come now, hear of me the mournful time

After the kings of Egypt were destroyed,

And the like earth had downwards borne them all,

The whole East and the rich West were cast down,

The whole East and the rich West were cast down,

And after that one of the race and blood

Even he who cleft the violence of fire,

To Ares dear, and after the young babes,

The children of the beast that feeds on sheep,

The children of the beast that feeds on sheep,

And after the passing of six hundred years

The very first lord, from the western sea,

The very first lord, from the western sea,

Shall be of Rome the ruler, very strong

And warlike, the initial of whose name

Begins the letters, and fast binding thee,

The outrage which thou willing didst force on;

For he, great soul, shall be the best in wars;

By reason of the wickedness of rulers

Under the spear. And laws will he ordain

Than this one, o'er the Romans, not one hour,

And also in the noble earth he showed

But when a radiant star all like the sun

Shall shine forth out of heaven in the mid days,

Then shall the secret Word of the Most High

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

Shall increase. But the mighty king himself

Wearing the purple mantle on his shoulders,

The Medes and arrow-hurling Parthians;

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 to those by the waters of the Rhine,

The Germans dwelling o'er the sandy shores.

The Germans dwelling o'er the sandy shores.

The high-gate city near Eridanus

Weaving guile, and the initial of his name

Will show the number three; and he much gold

Recklessly he'll put all things in the earth.

In divination of the greatest things,

Inquiring for the sake of means of life;

Yet there shall be on him the greatest sign:

From heaven down on the king while perishing

And put around the neck of Romans pain

Trusting in divination; and the heads

Of the assembly he will also slay.

And the king himself beguiling secretly

Shall craftily destroy the virgin maid;

But her the citizens in tearful grief

Shall bury; and against the king they all

While strong Rome blossoms the strong man shall perish.

Of the number of twice ten; and then shall come

Unto the Sauromatians and to Thrace

And the Triballi, famed for hurling darts,

Shall there be when this man shall rule the land

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

The cities many noblest citizens

Acting the athlete, driving chariots,

And he shall cleave the mountain of two seas,

Shall also vanish the destructive man;

And not the fears of men; and from the ocean

And not the fears of men; and from the ocean