the

Shall be hard by the waters of the lake

Shall be hard by the waters of the lake

Maeotis at streams by the utmost mouth

Of the fount of watery Phasis on the mead

Of the fount of watery Phasis on the mead

Having destroyed a Scythian race, the king

And yet another of the number four

Who drink the best ice of the flowing stream

Who drink the best ice of the flowing stream

Araxes, and the Persians of great soul

The cities of the land of Phrygia

The cities of the land of Phrygia

And those of the Propontis, and make bare

From out their scabbards the two-edged swords,

From heaven a great sign with the rolling years,

A bat, the portent of bad war to come.

And then the king shall not escape stern fate,

But die by hand, slain by the gleaming iron.

And the milk-drinking Agathyrsians

And then the king shall not escape stern fate,

And then, the king slain, man-ennobling Rome

And Agathyrsians of the Bosporus,

That bear the quiver, bent Massagetae,

Crowns altogether like the shining stars

Shall from heaven in the south and north appear.

And then shall he bequeath the royal power

The alphabet, when in the halls of Hades

The alphabet, when in the halls of Hades

The manly king in his own lot shall go.

But when the son of this man in the land

But when the son of this man in the land

Of Rome shall rule, shown by the number one,

There shall be over all the earth great peace

Much longed for, and the Latins will love him

The Roman people shall against his will

But being tyrants. And in all the world

But chiefly for the Romans till the time

But chiefly for the Romans till the time

Of the third Dionysus, until armed

But when the famous royal purple cloak

Shall rend, together they shall grasp the lungs

Of the changed kingdom; then a holy king,

Whose name has the first letter, pressing hard

To be the food of dogs and birds of prey.

But the great far-famed king shall afterward

And silver and ivory, and in the world

And the Laconians, who are situate

Around the summit of Olympian mount,

A great sign, day dark twilight round the world,

Even then to thee, O king, the end shall come,

A fiery eagle from the royal race,

Who has for his first sign the number eighty.

And then the whole world shall for honor's sake

Bear in its lap the soul-distressing wrath

Of the immortal God; and there shall come

On mortal men, the creatures of a day,

And an incessant darkness o'er the earth,

From heaven, and disorder of the times,

And the high summits of the Phrygian land

And the high summits of the Phrygian land

Feel the shock, bases of the Scythian hills

Feel the shock, bases of the Scythian hills

Feel the shock, cities tremble, and all earth

Trembles at the cliffs of the land of Greece.

Trembles at the cliffs of the land of Greece.

And with bewailings, and to shun the wrath

And then the king shall by a strong hand fall,

After him of the Latins many men

Wearing the purple mantle on their shoulders

Desire to lay hold on the royal power.

And then upon the stately walls of Rome

Shall be three kings, two having the first number,

And one the eponym of victory

And all the world, concerned for mortal men;

For God has not been gracious to the world

Destroy the kings together with their scepters.

And then shall many masters with the spear,

Take away offspring of the first-born men

Shall the Most High then bring on dreadful doom,

But at the time when one about the isles

But at the time when one about the isles

The city shall be those days, and straightway

And then the last race of the Latin kings

And then the last race of the Latin kings

Dominion, children and the children's race

Marks off the boundary and separates

The lofty-minded. And when he shall come

Unto the dark sea of Assyria

Shall be one lord of the two lords of earth.

Unshaken, when wrath from the gods shall come.

Then shall the oracles be all fulfilled.

But when three youths in the Olympian games

The oracles that call on God to cleanse

First by the blood of sucking quadruped,

Thrice therefore shall the Most High then bring on

Brandish the mournful long spear; then much blood

Barbarian shall be poured out in the dust

When the city shall be plundered utterly

Come suddenly; and the fruit, when it grows,

They from the field shall sever. Upon them