第 20 节
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辛苦 更新:2021-02-20 05:04 字数:9322
So that the blood made horrible his face;
Cried out: 〃Thou shalt remember Mosca also;
Who said; alas! 'A thing done has an end!'
Which was an ill seed for the Tuscan people。〃
〃And death unto thy race;〃 thereto I added;
Whence he; accumulating woe on woe;
Departed; like a person sad and crazed。
But I remained to look upon the crowd;
And saw a thing which I should be afraid;
Without some further proof; even to recount;
If it were not that conscience reassures me;
That good companion which emboldens man
Beneath the hauberk of its feeling pure。
I truly saw; and still I seem to see it;
A trunk without a head walk in like manner
As walked the others of the mournful herd。
And by the hair it held the head dissevered;
Hung from the hand in fashion of a lantern;
And that upon us gazed and said: 〃O me!〃
It of itself made to itself a lamp;
And they were two in one; and one in two;
How that can be; He knows who so ordains it。
When it was come close to the bridge's foot;
It lifted high its arm with all the head;
To bring more closely unto us its words;
Which were: 〃Behold now the sore penalty;
Thou; who dost breathing go the dead beholding;
Behold if any be as great as this。
And so that thou may carry news of me;
Know that Bertram de Born am I; the same
Who gave to the Young King the evil comfort。
I made the father and the son rebellious;
Achitophel not more with Absalom
And David did with his accursed goadings。
Because I parted persons so united;
Parted do I now bear my brain; alas!
From its beginning; which is in this trunk。
Thus is observed in me the counterpoise。〃
Inferno: Canto XXIX
The many people and the divers wounds
These eyes of mine had so inebriated;
That they were wishful to stand still and weep;
But said Virgilius: 〃What dost thou still gaze at?
Why is thy sight still riveted down there
Among the mournful; mutilated shades?
Thou hast not done so at the other Bolge;
Consider; if to count them thou believest;
That two…and…twenty miles the valley winds;
And now the moon is underneath our feet;
Henceforth the time allotted us is brief;
And more is to be seen than what thou seest。〃
〃If thou hadst;〃 I made answer thereupon;
〃Attended to the cause for which I looked;
Perhaps a longer stay thou wouldst have pardoned。〃
Meanwhile my Guide departed; and behind him
I went; already making my reply;
And superadding: 〃In that cavern where
I held mine eyes with such attention fixed;
I think a spirit of my blood laments
The sin which down below there costs so much。〃
Then said the Master: 〃Be no longer broken
Thy thought from this time forward upon him;
Attend elsewhere; and there let him remain;
For him I saw below the little bridge;
Pointing at thee; and threatening with his finger
Fiercely; and heard him called Geri del Bello。
So wholly at that time wast thou impeded
By him who formerly held Altaforte;
Thou didst not look that way; so he departed。〃
〃O my Conductor; his own violent death;
Which is not yet avenged for him;〃 I said;
〃By any who is sharer in the shame;
Made him disdainful; whence he went away;
As I imagine; without speaking to me;
And thereby made me pity him the more。〃
Thus did we speak as far as the first place
Upon the crag; which the next valley shows
Down to the bottom; if there were more light。
When we were now right over the last cloister
Of Malebolge; so that its lay…brothers
Could manifest themselves unto our sight;
Divers lamentings pierced me through and through;
Which with compassion had their arrows barbed;
Whereat mine ears I covered with my hands。
What pain would be; if from the hospitals
Of Valdichiana; 'twixt July and September;
And of Maremma and Sardinia
All the diseases in one moat were gathered;
Such was it here; and such a stench came from it
As from putrescent limbs is wont to issue。
We had descended on the furthest bank
From the long crag; upon the left hand still;
And then more vivid was my power of sight
Down tow'rds the bottom; where the ministress
Of the high Lord; Justice infallible;
Punishes forgers; which she here records。
I do not think a sadder sight to see
Was in Aegina the whole people sick;
(When was the air so full of pestilence;
The animals; down to the little worm;
All fell; and afterwards the ancient people;
According as the poets have affirmed;
Were from the seed of ants restored again;)
Than was it to behold through that dark valley
The spirits languishing in divers heaps。
This on the belly; that upon the back
One of the other lay; and others crawling
Shifted themselves along the dismal road。
We step by step went onward without speech;
Gazing upon and listening to the sick
Who had not strength enough to lift their bodies。
I saw two sitting leaned against each other;
As leans in heating platter against platter;
From head to foot bespotted o'er with scabs;
And never saw I plied a currycomb
By stable…boy for whom his master waits;
Or him who keeps awake unwillingly;
As every one was plying fast the bite
Of nails upon himself; for the great rage
Of itching which no other succour had。
And the nails downward with them dragged the scab;
In fashion as a knife the scales of bream;
Or any other fish that has them largest。
〃O thou; that with thy fingers dost dismail thee;〃
Began my Leader unto one of them;
〃And makest of them pincers now and then;
Tell me if any Latian is with those
Who are herein; so may thy nails suffice thee
To all eternity unto this work。〃
〃Latians are we; whom thou so wasted seest;
Both of us here;〃 one weeping made reply;
〃But who art thou; that questionest about us?〃
And said the Guide: 〃One am I who descends
Down with this living man from cliff to cliff;
And I intend to show Hell unto him。〃
Then broken was their mutual support;
And trembling each one turned himself to me;
With others who had heard him by rebound。
Wholly to me did the good Master gather;
Saying: 〃Say unto them whate'er thou wishest。〃
And I began; since he would have it so:
〃So may your memory not steal away
In the first world from out the minds of men;
But so may it survive 'neath many suns;
Say to me who ye are; and of what people;
Let not your foul and loathsome punishment
Make you afraid to show yourselves to me。〃
〃I of Arezzo was;〃 one made reply;
〃And Albert of Siena had me burned;
But what I died for does not bring me here。
'Tis true I said to him; speaking in jest;
That I could rise by flight into the air;
And he who had conceit; but little wit;
Would have me show to him the art; and only
Because no Daedalus I made him; made me
Be burned by one who held him as his son。
But unto the last Bolgia of the ten;
For alchemy; which in the world I practised;
Minos; who cannot err; has me condemned。〃
And to the Poet said I: 〃Now was ever
So vain a people as the Sienese?
Not for a certainty the French by far。〃
Whereat the other leper; who had heard me;
Replied unto my speech: 〃Taking out Stricca;
Who knew the art of moderate expenses;
And Niccolo; who the luxurious use
Of cloves discovered earliest of all
Within that garden where such seed takes root;
And taking out the band; among whom squandered
Caccia d'Ascian his vineyards and vast woods;
And where his wit the Abbagliato proffered!
But; that thou know who thus doth second thee
Against the Sienese; make sharp thine eye
Tow'rds me; so that my face well answer thee;
And thou shalt see I am Capocchio's shade;
Who metals falsified by alchemy;
Thou must remember; if I well descry thee;
How I a skilful ape of nature was。〃
Inferno: Canto XXX
'Twas at the time when Juno was enraged;
For Semele; against the Theban blood;
As she already more than once had shown;
So reft of reason Athamas became;
That; seeing his own wife with children twain
Walking encumbered upon either hand;
He cried: 〃Spread out the nets; that I may take
The lioness and her whelps upon the passage;〃
And then extended his unpitying claws;
Seizing the first; who had the name Learchus;
And whirled him round; and dashed him on a rock;
And she; with the other burthen; drowned herself;
And at the time when fortune downward hurled
The Trojan's arrogance; that all things dared;
So that the king was with his kingdom crushed;
Hecuba sad; disconsolate; and captive;
When lifeless she beheld Polyxena;
And of her Polydorus on the shore
Of ocean was the dolorous one aware;
Out of her senses like a dog she barked;
So much the anguish had her mind distorted;
But not of Thebes the furies nor the Trojan
Were ever seen in any one so cruel
In goading beasts; and much more human members;
As I beheld two shadows pale and naked;
Who; biting; in the manner ran along
That a boar does; when from the sty turned loose。
One to Capocchio came; and by the nape
Seized with its teeth his neck; so that in dragging
It ma