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Pharsalia-Part24_Marcus Annaeus Lucanus(39-65)_Translated Works(翻译文学)-第2页

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Some tardy rumour of thy fall may come?

Add that thou fain by use would'st give me strength



To bear such sorrow and my doom. Forgive

Thy wife confessing that she fears the power.



And if my prayers shall bring the victory,

The joyful tale shall come to me the last



In that lone isle of rocks. When all are glad,

My heart shall throb with anguish, and the sail



Which brings the message I shall see with fear,

Not safe e'en then: for Caesar in his flight



Might seize me there, abandoned and alone

To be his hostage. If thou place me there,



The spouse of Magnus, shall not all the world

Well know the secret Mitylene holds?



This my last prayer: if all is lost but flight,

And thou shalt seek the ocean, to my shores



Turn not thy keel, ill-fated one: for there,

There will they seek thee." Thus she spoke distraught,



Leaped from the couch and rushed upon her fate;

No stop nor stay: she clung not to his neck



Nor threw her arms about him; both forego

The last caress, the last fond pledge of love,



And grief rushed in unchecked upon their souls;

Still gazing as they part no final words



Could either utter, and the sweet Farewell

Remained unspoken. This the saddest day



Of all their lives: for other woes that came

More gently struck on hearts inured to grief.



Borne to the shore with failing limbs she fell

And grasped the sands, embracing, till at last



Her maidens placed her senseless in the ship.

Not in such grief she left her country's shores



When Caesar's host drew near; for now she leaves,

Though faithful to her lord, his side in flight



And flees her spouse. All that next night she waked;

Then first what means a widowed couch she knew,



Its cold, its solitude. When slumber found

Her eyelids, and forgetfulness her soul,



Seeking with outstretched arms the form beloved,

She grasps but air. Though tossed by restless love,



She leaves a place beside her as for him

Returning. Yet she feared Pompeius lost



To her for ever. But the gods ordained

Worse than her fears, and in the hour of woe



Gave her to look upon his face again.

ENDNOTES:



(1) The Pleiades, said to be daughters of Atlas.

(2) These were the Consuls for the expiring year, B.C. 49 --



Caius Marcellus and L. Lentulus Crus.

(3) That is to say, Caesar's Senate at Rome could boast of those



Senators only whom it had, before Pompeius' flight, declared

public enemies. But they were to be regarded as exiles,



having lost their rights, rather than the Senators in

Epirus, who were in full possession of theirs.



(4) Dean Merivale says that probably Caesar's Senate was not

less numerous than his rival's. Duruy says there were



senators in Pompeius' camp, out of a total of between 500

and 600. Mommsen says, "they were veritably emigrants.



This Roman Coblentz presented a pitifulspectacle of the

high pretensions and paltry performances of the grandees of



Rome." (Vol. iv., p. 397.) Almost all the Consulars were

with Pompeius.



(5) By the will of Ptolemy Auletes, Cleopatra had been appointed

joint sovereign of Egypt with her young brother. Lucan



means that Caesar would have killed Pompeius if young

Ptolemy had not done so. She lost her hare of the kingdom,



and Caesar was clear of the crime.

(6) Appius was Proconsul, and in command of Achaia, for the



Senate.

(7) See Book IV., 82.



(8) Themis, the goddess of law, was in possession of the Delphic

oracle, previous to Apollo. (Aesch., "Eumenides", line 2.)



(9) The modern isle of Ischia, off the Bay of Naples.

(10) The Tyrians consulted the oracle in consequence of the



earthquakes which vexed their country (Book III., line 225),




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