第 8 节
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辛苦 更新:2021-02-20 05:04 字数:9322
This latter mode; it would appear; dissevers
Only the bond of love which Nature makes;
Wherefore within the second circle nestle
Hypocrisy; flattery; and who deals in magic;
Falsification; theft; and simony;
Panders; and barrators; and the like filth。
By the other mode; forgotten is that love
Which Nature makes; and what is after added;
From which there is a special faith engendered。
Hence in the smallest circle; where the point is
Of the Universe; upon which Dis is seated;
Whoe'er betrays for ever is consumed。〃
And I: 〃My Master; clear enough proceeds
Thy reasoning; and full well distinguishes
This cavern and the people who possess it。
But tell me; those within the fat lagoon;
Whom the wind drives; and whom the rain doth beat;
And who encounter with such bitter tongues;
Wherefore are they inside of the red city
Not punished; if God has them in his wrath;
And if he has not; wherefore in such fashion?〃
And unto me he said: 〃Why wanders so
Thine intellect from that which it is wont?
Or; sooth; thy mind where is it elsewhere looking?
Hast thou no recollection of those words
With which thine Ethics thoroughly discusses
The dispositions three; that Heaven abides not;
Incontinence; and Malice; and insane
Bestiality? and how Incontinence
Less God offendeth; and less blame attracts?
If thou regardest this conclusion well;
And to thy mind recallest who they are
That up outside are undergoing penance;
Clearly wilt thou perceive why from these felons
They separated are; and why less wroth
Justice divine doth smite them with its hammer。〃
〃O Sun; that healest all distempered vision;
Thou dost content me so; when thou resolvest;
That doubting pleases me no less than knowing!
Once more a little backward turn thee;〃 said I;
〃There where thou sayest that usury offends
Goodness divine; and disengage the knot。〃
〃Philosophy;〃 he said; 〃to him who heeds it;
Noteth; not only in one place alone;
After what manner Nature takes her course
From Intellect Divine; and from its art;
And if thy Physics carefully thou notest;
After not many pages shalt thou find;
That this your art as far as possible
Follows; as the disciple doth the master;
So that your art is; as it were; God's grandchild。
From these two; if thou bringest to thy mind
Genesis at the beginning; it behoves
Mankind to gain their life and to advance;
And since the usurer takes another way;
Nature herself and in her follower
Disdains he; for elsewhere he puts his hope。
But follow; now; as I would fain go on;
For quivering are the Fishes on the horizon;
And the Wain wholly over Caurus lies;
And far beyond there we descend the crag。〃
Inferno: Canto XII
The place where to descend the bank we came
Was alpine; and from what was there; moreover;
Of such a kind that every eye would shun it。
Such as that ruin is which in the flank
Smote; on this side of Trent; the Adige;
Either by earthquake or by failing stay;
For from the mountain's top; from which it moved;
Unto the plain the cliff is shattered so;
Some path 'twould give to him who was above;
Even such was the descent of that ravine;
And on the border of the broken chasm
The infamy of Crete was stretched along;
Who was conceived in the fictitious cow;
And when he us beheld; he bit himself;
Even as one whom anger racks within。
My Sage towards him shouted: 〃Peradventure
Thou think'st that here may be the Duke of Athens;
Who in the world above brought death to thee?
Get thee gone; beast; for this one cometh not
Instructed by thy sister; but he comes
In order to behold your punishments。〃
As is that bull who breaks loose at the moment
In which he has received the mortal blow;
Who cannot walk; but staggers here and there;
The Minotaur beheld I do the like;
And he; the wary; cried: 〃Run to the passage;
While he wroth; 'tis well thou shouldst descend。〃
Thus down we took our way o'er that discharge
Of stones; which oftentimes did move themselves
Beneath my feet; from the unwonted burden。
Thoughtful I went; and he said: 〃Thou art thinking
Perhaps upon this ruin; which is guarded
By that brute anger which just now I quenched。
Now will I have thee know; the other time
I here descended to the nether Hell;
This precipice had not yet fallen down。
But truly; if I well discern; a little
Before His coming who the mighty spoil
Bore off from Dis; in the supernal circle;
Upon all sides the deep and loathsome valley
Trembled so; that I thought the Universe
Was thrilled with love; by which there are who think
The world ofttimes converted into chaos;
And at that moment this primeval crag
Both here and elsewhere made such overthrow。
But fix thine eyes below; for draweth near
The river of blood; within which boiling is
Whoe'er by violence doth injure others。〃
O blind cupidity; O wrath insane;
That spurs us onward so in our short life;
And in the eternal then so badly steeps us!
I saw an ample moat bent like a bow;
As one which all the plain encompasses;
Conformable to what my Guide had said。
And between this and the embankment's foot
Centaurs in file were running; armed with arrows;
As in the world they used the chase to follow。
Beholding us descend; each one stood still;
And from the squadron three detached themselves;
With bows and arrows in advance selected;
And from afar one cried: 〃Unto what torment
Come ye; who down the hillside are descending?
Tell us from there; if not; I draw the bow。〃
My Master said: 〃Our answer will we make
To Chiron; near you there; in evil hour;
That will of thine was evermore so hasty。〃
Then touched he me; and said: 〃This one is Nessus;
Who perished for the lovely Dejanira;
And for himself; himself did vengeance take。
And he in the midst; who at his breast is gazing;
Is the great Chiron; who brought up Achilles;
That other Pholus is; who was so wrathful。
Thousands and thousands go about the moat
Shooting with shafts whatever soul emerges
Out of the blood; more than his crime allots。〃
Near we approached unto those monsters fleet;
Chiron an arrow took; and with the notch
Backward upon his jaws he put his beard。
After he had uncovered his great mouth;
He said to his companions: 〃Are you ware
That he behind moveth whate'er he touches?
Thus are not wont to do the feet of dead men。〃
And my good Guide; who now was at his breast;
Where the two natures are together joined;
Replied: 〃Indeed he lives; and thus alone
Me it behoves to show him the dark valley;
Necessity; and not delight; impels us。
Some one withdrew from singing Halleluja;
Who unto me committed this new office;
No thief is he; nor I a thievish spirit。
But by that virtue through which I am moving
My steps along this savage thoroughfare;
Give us some one of thine; to be with us;
And who may show us where to pass the ford;
And who may carry this one on his back;
For 'tis no spirit that can walk the air。〃
Upon his right breast Chiron wheeled about;
And said to Nessus: 〃Turn and do thou guide them;
And warn aside; if other band may meet you。〃
We with our faithful escort onward moved
Along the brink of the vermilion boiling;
Wherein the boiled were uttering loud laments。
People I saw within up to the eyebrows;
And the great Centaur said: 〃Tyrants are these;
Who dealt in bloodshed and in pillaging。
Here they lament their pitiless mischiefs; here
Is Alexander; and fierce Dionysius
Who upon Sicily brought dolorous years。
That forehead there which has the hair so black
Is Azzolin; and the other who is blond;
Obizzo is of Esti; who; in truth;
Up in the world was by his stepson slain。〃
Then turned I to the Poet; and he said;
〃Now he be first to thee; and second I。〃
A little farther on the Centaur stopped
Above a folk; who far down as the throat
Seemed from that boiling stream to issue forth。
A shade he showed us on one side alone;
Saying: 〃He cleft asunder in God's bosom
The heart that still upon the Thames is honoured。〃
Then people saw I; who from out the river
Lifted their heads and also all the chest;
And many among these I recognised。
Thus ever more and more grew shallower
That blood; so that the feet alone it covered;
And there across the moat our passage was。
〃Even as thou here upon this side beholdest
The boiling stream; that aye diminishes;〃
The Centaur said; 〃I wish thee to believe
That on this other more and more declines
Its bed; until it reunites itself
Where it behoveth tyranny to groan。
Justice divine; upon this side; is goading
That Attila; who was a scourge on earth;
And Pyrrhus; and Sextus; and for ever milks
The tears which with the boiling it unseals
In Rinier da Corneto and Rinier Pazzo;
Who made upon the highways so much war。〃
Then back he turned; and passed again the ford。
Inferno: Canto XIII
Not yet had Nessus reached the other side;
When we had put ourselves within a wood;
Tha
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