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And the Persians maddened by the Ausonians

And the Persians maddened by the Ausonians

Shall in the toil of Ares yet again

The priest heard of all round, sent by the sun,

The priest heard of all round, sent by the sun,

The city of the sun shall offer prayer;

The city of the sun shall offer prayer;

And round about her shall the Persians dare

The fearful threatenings of the Phœnicians.

The fearful threatenings of the Phœnicians.

The very mighty Romans, one of whom

Shall have the number seventy, and the other

Shall have the number seventy, and the other

The number three, even then the stately bull,

The number three, even then the stately bull,

That digs the earth with his hoofs and stirs up

The dust with his two horns, shall many ills

Hungry upon the mountains, striving hard

To feed upon the venom-shedding beasts

Sent from the sun, and breathing forth much flame.

Shall he destroy the well-horned rapid stag,

And the most mighty venom-shedding beast

And the he-goat that sideways moves along,

The Romans, and the Persians shall be weak.

The Romans, and the Persians shall be weak.

But, Lord, King of the world, O God, restrain

The song of our words, and give charming song.

The lust of rule, and most of all things hates

Pursued the lion which destroys the shepherds.

Pursued the lion which destroys the shepherds.

And shown forth clearly from the number one;

Both of the number forty; and with them

Shall great peace be in the world and to all

The people law and right; but them in turn

The number seventy, life-destroying, fierce,

Who to the army basely shall betray

The people of Rome, slain by wickedness

Down every city and hut of the Latins.

For all these things shall in the ashes lie,

God the immortal from the sky shall send

God the immortal from the sky shall send

And Rome's strong children and the famous Latins

Shall then the shameless dreadful ruler slay.

Around him dead the dust shall not lie light,

That kill men, which upon the ocean's streams

And the Euphrates press continuous on.

A ruler marching onward from the West,

Being cleft asunder by the piercing brass.

And o'er the very mighty Romans then

Of the first letter, and he shall himself

One having the first number, one three tens,

And the other with three hundred shall partake,

And to the armies they, equipped for war,

Will, for the sake of victory, moneys give,

The arrow-shooting Parthians of the deep

The arrow-shooting Parthians of the deep

And swift Euphrates, and the hostile Medes,

And the soft-haired warlike Massagetae

But when the king shall his own fate unloose

The royal scepter and entreating right,

Shall rush in conflict for the royal power.

And then another lord, of the third number,

Being very valiant for the royal power.

The very mighty Romans, an old lord,

Of the number four, and manage all things well.

The loudly-boasting shall behold each other

Amid the blood and bodies of the dead.

Amid the blood and bodies of the dead.

Stir up through the impiety of men,

An evil harvest; when in the day-time

The sun that lighteth mortals shall withdraw,

Upon the earth. And then the king shall die,

Upon the earth. And then the king shall die,

The wicked strife and one another kill.

And having the good name he shall thereto

A fearful sign. From the Cilician land

Shall by the deep strong rivers be destroyed.

Shall there be many earthquakes. And the king

In defense of the seven-hill city Rome,

And for the sake of powerful sovereignty.

And then shall evil to the senate come,

Nor shall it from the angry king escape

And fuller shall the rains be, snow and hail

Shall ruin field-fruits o'er the boundless earth.

In behalf of the war for the Italians.

In behalf of the war for the Italians.

Full of devices, gathering all the army,

And for the sake of war distributing

Beyond the Libyan mainland irrigate

For two years the dark soil and fruitful land

Be thrown down headlong by the army's hands;

Shall rule the Romans, very mighty men;

Against the Armenians and the Parthians,

Against the Armenians and the Parthians,

The Assyrians and the Persians firm in war.

The Assyrians and the Persians firm in war.

From all the East and from the prosperous West;

From all the East and from the prosperous West;

And the king shall make other laws for her;

Who shall be a descendant of the Greeks.