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inferno-第14部分
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The Guide: 〃Now tell then of the other culprits;
Knowest thou any one who is a Latian;
Under the pitch?〃 And he: 〃I separated
Lately from one who was a neighbour to it;
Would that I still were covered up with him;
For I should fear not either claw nor hook!〃
And Libicocco: 〃We have borne too much;〃
And with his grapnel seized him by the arm;
So that; by rending; he tore off a tendon。
Eke Draghignazzo wished to pounce upon him
Down at the legs; whence their Decurion
Turned round and round about with evil look。
When they again somewhat were pacified;
Of him; who still was looking at his wound;
Demanded my Conductor without stay:
〃Who was that one; from whom a luckless parting
Thou sayest thou hast made; to come ashore?〃
And he replied: 〃It was the Friar Gomita;
He of Gallura; vessel of all fraud;
Who had the enemies of his Lord in hand;
And dealt so with them each exults thereat;
Money he took; and let them smoothly off;
As he says; and in other offices
A barrator was he; not mean but sovereign。
Foregathers with him one Don Michael Zanche
Of Logodoro; and of Sardinia
To gossip never do their tongues feel tired。
O me! see that one; how he grinds his teeth;
Still farther would I speak; but am afraid
Lest he to scratch my itch be making ready。〃
And the grand Provost; turned to Farfarello;
Who rolled his eyes about as if to strike;
Said: 〃Stand aside there; thou malicious bird。〃
〃If you desire either to see or hear;〃
The terror…stricken recommenced thereon;
〃Tuscans or Lombards; I will make them come。
But let the Malebranche cease a little;
So that these may not their revenges fear;
And I; down sitting in this very place;
For one that I am will make seven come;
When I shall whistle; as our custom is
To do whenever one of us comes out。〃
Cagnazzo at these words his muzzle lifted;
Shaking his head; and said: 〃Just hear the trick
Which he has thought of; down to throw himself!〃
Whence he; who snares in great abundance had;
Responded: 〃I by far too cunning am;
When I procure for mine a greater sadness。〃
Alichin held not in; but running counter
Unto the rest; said to him: 〃If thou dive;
I will not follow thee upon the gallop;
But I will beat my wings above the pitch;
The height be left; and be the bank a shield
To see if thou alone dost countervail us。〃
O thou who readest; thou shalt hear new sport!
Each to the other side his eyes averted;
He first; who most reluctant was to do it。
The Navarrese selected well his time;
Planted his feet on land; and in a moment
Leaped; and released himself from their design。
Whereat each one was suddenly stung with shame;
But he most who was cause of the defeat;
Therefore he moved; and cried: 〃Thou art o'ertakern。〃
But little it availed; for wings could not
Outstrip the fear; the other one went under;
And; flying; upward he his breast directed;
Not otherwise the duck upon a sudden
Dives under; when the falcon is approaching;
And upward he returneth cross and weary。
Infuriate at the mockery; Calcabrina
Flying behind him followed close; desirous
The other should escape; to have a quarrel。
And when the barrator had disappeared;
He turned his talons upon his companion;
And grappled with him right above the moat。
But sooth the other was a doughty sparhawk
To clapperclaw him well; and both of them
Fell in the middle of the boiling pond。
A sudden intercessor was the heat;
But ne'ertheless of rising there was naught;
To such degree they had their wings belimed。
Lamenting with the others; Barbariccia
Made four of them fly to the other side
With all their gaffs; and very speedily
This side and that they to their posts descended;
They stretched their hooks towards the pitch…ensnared;
Who were already baked within the crust;
And in this manner busied did we leave them。
Inferno: Canto XXIII
Silent; alone; and without company
We went; the one in front; the other after;
As go the Minor Friars along their way。
Upon the fable of Aesop was directed
My thought; by reason of the present quarrel;
Where he has spoken of the frog and mouse;
For 'mo' and 'issa' are not more alike
Than this one is to that; if well we couple
End and beginning with a steadfast mind。
And even as one thought from another springs;
So afterward from that was born another;
Which the first fear within me double made。
Thus did I ponder: 〃These on our account
Are laughed to scorn; with injury and scoff
So great; that much I think it must annoy them。
If anger be engrafted on ill…will;
They will come after us more merciless
Than dog upon the leveret which he seizes;〃
I felt my hair stand all on end already
With terror; and stood backwardly intent;
When said I: 〃Master; if thou hidest not
Thyself and me forthwith; of Malebranche
I am in dread; we have them now behind us;
I so imagine them; I already feel them。〃
And he: 〃If I were made of leaded glass;
Thine outward image I should not attract
Sooner to me than I imprint the inner。
Just now thy thoughts came in among my own;
With similar attitude and similar face;
So that of both one counsel sole I made。
If peradventure the right bank so slope
That we to the next Bolgia can descend;
We shall escape from the imagined chase。〃
Not yet he finished rendering such opinion;
When I beheld them come with outstretched wings;
Not far remote; with will to seize upon us。
My Leader on a sudden seized me up;
Even as a mother who by noise is wakened;
And close beside her sees the enkindled flames;
Who takes her son; and flies; and does not stop;
Having more care of him than of herself;
So that she clothes her only with a shift;
And downward from the top of the hard bank
Supine he gave him to the pendent rock;
That one side of the other Bolgia walls。
Ne'er ran so swiftly water through a sluice
To turn the wheel of any land…built mill;
When nearest to the paddles it approaches;
As did my Master down along that border;
Bearing me with him on his breast away;
As his own son; and not as a companion。
Hardly the bed of the ravine below
His feet had reached; ere they had reached the hill
Right over us; but he was not afraid;
For the high Providence; which had ordained
To place them ministers of the fifth moat;
The power of thence departing took from all。
A painted people there below we found;
Who went about with footsteps very slow;
Weeping and in their semblance tired and vanquished。
They had on mantles with the hoods low down
Before their eyes; and fashioned of the cut
That in Cologne they for the monks are made。
Without; they gilded are so that it dazzles;
But inwardly all leaden and so heavy
That Frederick used to put them on of straw。
O everlastingly fatiguing mantle!
Again we turned us; still to the left hand
Along with them; intent on their sad plaint;
But owing to the weight; that weary folk
Came on so tardily; that we were new
In company at each motion of the haunch。
Whence I unto my Leader: 〃See thou find
Some one who may by deed or name be known;
And thus in going move thine eye about。〃
And one; who understood the Tuscan speech;
Cried to us from behind: 〃Stay ye your feet;
Ye; who so run athwart the dusky air!
Perhaps thou'lt have from me what thou demandest。〃
Whereat the Leader turned him; and said: 〃Wait;
And then according to his pace proceed。〃
I stopped; and two beheld I show great haste
Of spirit; in their faces; to be with me;
But the burden and the narrow way delayed them。
When they came up; long with an eye askance
They scanned me without uttering a word。
Then to each other turned; and said together:
〃He by the action of his throat seems living;
And if they dead are; by what privilege
Go they uncovered by the heavy stole?〃
Then said to me: 〃Tuscan; who to the college
Of miserable hypocrites art come;
Do not disdain to tell us who thou art。〃
And I to them: 〃Born was I; and grew up
In the great town on the fair river of Arno;
And with the body am I've always had。
But who are ye; in whom there trickles down
Along your cheeks such grief as I behold?
And what pain is upon you; that so sparkles?〃
And one replied to me: 〃These orange cloaks
Are made of lead so heavy; that the weights
Cause in this way their balances to creak。
Frati Gaudenti were we; and Bolognese;
I Catalano; and he Loderingo
Named; and together taken by thy city;
As the wont is to take one man alone;
For maintenance of its peace; and we were such
That still it is apparent round Gardingo。〃
〃O Friars;〃 began I; 〃your iniquitous。 。 。〃
But said no more; for to mine eyes there rushed
One crucified with three stakes on the ground。
When me he saw; he writhed himself all over;
Blowing into his beard with suspirations;
And the Friar Catalan; who noticed this;
Said to me: 〃This transfixed one; whom thou seest;
Counselled the Pharisees that it was meet
To put one man to torture for the people。
Crosswise and naked is he on the path;
As thou perceivest; and he needs must feel;
Whoever passes; first how much he weighs;
And in like mode his father…in…law is punished
Within this moat; and the others of the council;
Which for the Jews was a malignant seed。〃
And thereupon I saw Virgilius marvel
O'er him who was extended on the cross
So vilely in eternal banishment。
Then he directed to the Friar this voice:
〃Be not displeased; if granted thee; to tell us
If to the right hand any pass slope down
By which we two may issue forth from here;
Without constraining some of the black angels
To come and extricate us from this deep。〃
Then he made answer: 〃Nearer than thou hopest
There is a rock; that forth from the great circle
Proceeds; and crosses all the cruel valleys;
Save that at this 'tis broken; and does not bridge it;
You will be able to mount up the ruin;
That sidelong slopes and at the bottom rises。〃
The Leader sto
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