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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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