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His very many contests for the people,

And leave the royal power, and perishing

Illy will he repay the harm he wrought.

Shall have the number seventy by their names,

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

Destroyer of the pious, strong-minded man,

Spear-wielding Ares, whom seven times the tenth

A sword shall come upon the sacred land

Of Solyma even to the utmost bend

Of the Tiberian sea. Alas, alas,

Alas, alas, to the Assyrians

Among unfriendly men and with the wives,

Of cities shall be. But the reverend king

Of mighty soul shall at the end of life

The memory of their father, great king, rule,

Not in the warring companies stretched out,

But struck in Rome's plain by the two-edged brass.

Of the letter four shall rule the mighty realm,

Of the letter four shall rule the mighty realm,

Whom all men on the boundless earth shall love,

And then shall there be over all the world

The imperishable God who dwells on high.

And all the Celtic land, and shall destroy

For the Assyrians, whom Orontes laves,

Yet greater anywhere. And the great king

Above the others far (and there are many);

A great wound, and seized at the end of life

Of the great royal hall shall he fall down

Shall bear rule and lay waste the Thracians' land

The powerful Germans dwelling by the Rhine

The powerful Germans dwelling by the Rhine

And the Iberians that shoot the arrow.

And the Iberians that shoot the arrow.

Moreover, there shall be unto the Jews

And the walls of the Assyrians shall fall

And the walls of the Assyrians shall fall

And then shall threatenings of the mighty God,

And then the great king, mountain-roaming Celt,

Shall for the toil of Ares not escape

After the strife of battle, but worn out

A silver-headed man, and of the sea

Ares himself first of the alphabet

In all the cities, watching o'er the world

In all the cities, watching o'er the world

All will he from the sanctuaries keep;

After him three shall rule, and the third late

Of the first unit shall another king

Bear the rule; and another after him

And the Arabians. But when the last

And the Arabians. But when the last

Against the Parthians come, and utterly

Shall he destroy them. And then shall the king

Himself the name of the first mighty king

Himself the name of the first mighty king

Of the first unit; and he shall be good

And mighty; and for the illustrious Latins

Shall he adorn the walls of Rome with gold

Within the market places and the temples

Within the market places and the temples

Shall shoot up like ears in the Roman wars;

And he shall sack the whole land of the Germans,

And he shall sack the whole land of the Germans,

From heaven, and shall for the king's piety

Of which I spoke, then with the rolling years

Shall also the renowned dominion cease

Of the great pious king; and at the end

Of the great pious king; and at the end

Succeeding to the kingdom, he shall die

By his own lot and leave the royal power

Unto the ruler with the golden hair,

Unto the ruler with the golden hair,

From the race of his father, shall receive

And be the best in mighty arms and have

The greatest fame in chase and horsemanship;

Then in the plain of Rome, so that a man

When the king himself, exceeding mad with love,

And weakly, shall come in the marriage-bed

The mighty baneful man held under wrath

Know then the fatal lot of Rome is near

Because of zeal for power; and by the hands

For from the time when thy first king, proud Rome,

And the Word of the great immortal God

And the Word of the great immortal God

Came to the earth, until the nineteenth reign

Came to the earth, until the nineteenth reign

With six months added; then the twentieth king,

When smitten with sharp brass he with the sword

The letter which the number eighty shows,

The letter which the number eighty shows,

Shall, cleft by force of hands, fall in the plain.

The sign of his name in the number ten;

The sign of his name in the number ten;

A warrior roused up by the East for rule;

Into the land of the Bithynians

Into the land of the Bithynians

And the Cilician plain; but brazen Ares

The life-destroyer shall with speedy stroke

Utterly spoil him in the Assyrian fields.

Roused up by the West, and his name shall have

The number of two hundred. And again