第 9 节
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雨来不躲 更新:2024-04-18 10:46 字数:6809
cloud;
Up off the plain; raised up cloud…thick by the thundering horse…
hooves)
Hewed with the sword's sharp edge; and so meanwhile Lord Agamemnon
Followed; chasing and slaughtering aye; on…urgeing the Argives。
Now; as when fire voracious catches the unclipped wood…land;
This way bears it and that the great whirl of the wind; and the
scrubwood
Stretches uptorn; flung forward alength by the fire's fury rageing;
So beneath Atreides Agamemnon heads of the scattered
Trojans fell; and in numbers amany the horses; neck…stiffened;
Rattled their vacant cars down the roadway gaps of the war…field;
Missing the blameless charioteers; but; for these; they were
outstretched
Flat upon earth; far dearer to vultures than to their home…mates。
Poem: Paris And Diomedes
'Iliad; B。 XI V。 378'
So he; with a clear shout of laughter;
Forth of his ambush leapt; and he vaunted him; uttering thiswise:
〃Hit thou art! not in vain flew the shaft; how by rights it had
pierced thee
Into the undermost gut; therewith to have rived thee of life…
breath!
Following that had the Trojans plucked a new breath from their
direst;
They all frighted of thee; as the goats bleat in flight from a
lion。〃
Then unto him untroubled made answer stout Diomedes:
〃Bow…puller; jiber; thy bow for thy glorying; spyer at virgins!
If that thou dared'st face me here out in the open with weapons;
Nothing then would avail thee thy bow and thy thick shot of arrows。
Now thou plumest thee vainly because of a graze of my footsole;
Reck I as were that stroke from a woman or some pettish infant。
Aye flies blunted the dart of the man that's emasculate;
noughtworth!
Otherwise hits; forth flying from me; and but strikes it the
slightest;
My keen shaft; and it numbers a man of the dead fallen straightway。
Torn; troth; then are the cheeks of the wife of that man fallen
slaughtered;
Orphans his babes; full surely he reddens the earth with his blood…
drops;
Rotting; round him the birds; more numerous they than the women。〃
Poem: Hypnos On Ida
'Iliad; B。 XIV。 V。 283'
They then to fountain…abundant Ida; mother of wild beasts;
Came; and they first left ocean to fare over mainland at Lektos;
Where underneath of their feet waved loftiest growths of the
woodland。
There hung Hypnos fast; ere the vision of Zeus was observant;
Mounted upon a tall pine…tree; tallest of pines that on Ida
Lustily spring off soil for the shoot up aloft into aether。
There did he sit well…cloaked by the wide…branched pine for
concealment;
That loud bird; in his form like; that perched high up in the
mountains;
Chalkis is named by the Gods; but of mortals known as Kymindis。
Poem: Clash In Arms Of The Achaians And Trojans
'Iliad; B。 XIV。 V。 394'
Not the sea…wave so bellows abroad when it bursts upon shingle;
Whipped from the sea's deeps up by the terrible blast of the
Northwind;
Nay; nor is ever the roar of the fierce fire's rush so arousing;
Down along mountain…glades; when it surges to kindle a woodland;
Nay; nor so tonant thunders the stress of the gale in the oak…
trees'
Foliage…tresses high; when it rages to raveing its utmost;
As rose then stupendous the Trojan's cry and Achaians';
Dread upshouting as one when together they clashed in the conflict。
Poem: The Horses Of Achilles
'Iliad; B。 XVII。 V。 426'
So now the horses of Aiakides; off wide of the war…ground;
Wept; since first they were ware of their charioteer overthrown
there;
Cast down low in the whirl of the dust under man…slaying Hector。
Sooth; meanwhile; then did Automedon; brave son of Diores;
Oft; on the one hand; urge them with flicks of the swift whip; and
oft; too;
Coax entreatingly; hurriedly; whiles did he angrily threaten。
Vainly; for these would not to the ships; to the Hellespont
spacious;
Backward turn; nor be whipped to the battle among the Achaians。
Nay; as a pillar remains immovable; fixed on the tombstone;
Haply; of some dead man or it may be a woman there…under;
Even like hard stood they there attached to the glorious war…car;
Earthward bowed with their heads; and of them so lamenting
incessant
Ran the hot teardrops downward on to the earth from their eyelids;
Mourning their charioteer; all their lustrous manes dusty…clotted;
Right side and left of the yoke…ring tossed; to the breadth of the
yoke…bow。
Now when the issue of Kronos beheld that sorrow; his head shook
Pitying them for their grief; these words then he spake in his
bosom;
〃Why; ye hapless; gave we to Peleus you; to a mortal
Master; ye that are ageless both; ye both of you deathless!
Was it that ye among men most wretched should come to have heart…
grief?
'Tis most true; than the race of these men is there wretcheder
nowhere
Aught over earth's range found that is gifted with breath and has
movement。〃
Poem: The Mares Of The Camargue
'From the MIREIO of Mistral'
A hundred mares; all white! their manes
Like mace…reed of the marshy plains
Thick…tufted; wavy; free o' the shears:
And when the fiery squadron rears
Bursting at speed; each mane appears
Even as the white scarf of a fay
Floating upon their necks along the heavens away。
O race of humankind; take shame!
For never yet a hand could tame;
Nor bitter spur that rips the flanks subdue
The mares of the Camargue。 I have known;
By treason snared; some captives shown;
Expatriate from their native Rhone;
Led off; their saline pastures far from view:
And on a day; with prompt rebound;
They have flung their riders to the ground;
And at a single gallop; scouring free;
Wide…nostril'd to the wind; twice ten
Of long marsh…leagues devour'd; and then;
Back to the Vacares again;
After ten years of slavery just to breathe salt sea
For of this savage race unbent;
The ocean is the element。
Of old escaped from Neptune's car; full sure;
Still with the white foam fleck'd are they;
And when the sea puffs black from grey;
And ships part cables; loudly neigh
The stallions of Camargue; all joyful in the roar;
And keen as a whip they lash and crack
Their tails that drag the dust; and back
Scratch up the earth; and feel; entering their flesh; where he;
The God; drives deep his trident teeth;
Who in one horror; above; beneath;
Bids storm and watery deluge seethe;
And shatters to their depths the abysses of the sea。
Cant。 iv。
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