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inferno-第16部分
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Then they stuck close; as if of heated wax
They had been made; and intermixed their colour;
Nor one nor other seemed now what he was;
E'en as proceedeth on before the flame
Upward along the paper a brown colour;
Which is not black as yet; and the white dies。
The other two looked on; and each of them
Cried out: 〃O me; Agnello; how thou changest!
Behold; thou now art neither two nor one。〃
Already the two heads had one become;
When there appeared to us two figures mingled
Into one face; wherein the two were lost。
Of the four lists were fashioned the two arms;
The thighs and legs; the belly and the chest
Members became that never yet were seen。
Every original aspect there was cancelled;
Two and yet none did the perverted image
Appear; and such departed with slow pace。
Even as a lizard; under the great scourge
Of days canicular; exchanging hedge;
Lightning appeareth if the road it cross;
Thus did appear; coming towards the bellies
Of the two others; a small fiery serpent;
Livid and black as is a peppercorn。
And in that part whereat is first received
Our aliment; it one of them transfixed;
Then downward fell in front of him extended。
The one transfixed looked at it; but said naught;
Nay; rather with feet motionless he yawned;
Just as if sleep or fever had assailed him。
He at the serpent gazed; and it at him;
One through the wound; the other through the mouth
Smoked violently; and the smoke commingled。
Henceforth be silent Lucan; where he mentions
Wretched Sabellus and Nassidius;
And wait to hear what now shall be shot forth。
Be silent Ovid; of Cadmus and Arethusa;
For if him to a snake; her to fountain;
Converts he fabling; that I grudge him not;
Because two natures never front to front
Has he transmuted; so that both the forms
To interchange their matter ready were。
Together they responded in such wise;
That to a fork the serpent cleft his tail;
And eke the wounded drew his feet together。
The legs together with the thighs themselves
Adhered so; that in little time the juncture
No sign whatever made that was apparent。
He with the cloven tail assumed the figure
The other one was losing; and his skin
Became elastic; and the other's hard。
I saw the arms draw inward at the armpits;
And both feet of the reptile; that were short;
Lengthen as much as those contracted were。
Thereafter the hind feet; together twisted;
Became the member that a man conceals;
And of his own the wretch had two created。
While both of them the exhalation veils
With a new colour; and engenders hair
On one of them and depilates the other;
The one uprose and down the other fell;
Though turning not away their impious lamps;
Underneath which each one his muzzle changed。
He who was standing drew it tow'rds the temples;
And from excess of matter; which came thither;
Issued the ears from out the hollow cheeks;
What did not backward run and was retained
Of that excess made to the face a nose;
And the lips thickened far as was befitting。
He who lay prostrate thrusts his muzzle forward;
And backward draws the ears into his head;
In the same manner as the snail its horns;
And so the tongue; which was entire and apt
For speech before; is cleft; and the bi…forked
In the other closes up; and the smoke ceases。
The soul; which to a reptile had been changed;
Along the valley hissing takes to flight;
And after him the other speaking sputters。
Then did he turn upon him his new shoulders;
And said to the other: 〃I'll have Buoso run;
Crawling as I have done; along this road。〃
In this way I beheld the seventh ballast
Shift and reshift; and here be my excuse
The novelty; if aught my pen transgress。
And notwithstanding that mine eyes might be
Somewhat bewildered; and my mind dismayed;
They could not flee away so secretly
But that I plainly saw Puccio Sciancato;
And he it was who sole of three companions;
Which came in the beginning; was not changed;
The other was he whom thou; Gaville; weepest。
Inferno: Canto XXVI
Rejoice; O Florence; since thou art so great;
That over sea and land thou beatest thy wings;
And throughout Hell thy name is spread abroad!
Among the thieves five citizens of thine
Like these I found; whence shame comes unto me;
And thou thereby to no great honour risest。
But if when morn is near our dreams are true;
Feel shalt thou in a little time from now
What Prato; if none other; craves for thee。
And if it now were; it were not too soon;
Would that it were; seeing it needs must be;
For 'twill aggrieve me more the more I age。
We went our way; and up along the stairs
The bourns had made us to descend before;
Remounted my Conductor and drew me。
And following the solitary path
Among the rocks and ridges of the crag;
The foot without the hand sped not at all。
Then sorrowed I; and sorrow now again;
When I direct my mind to what I saw;
And more my genius curb than I am wont;
That it may run not unless virtue guide it;
So that if some good star; or better thing;
Have given me good; I may myself not grudge it。
As many as the hind (who on the hill
Rests at the time when he who lights the world
His countenance keeps least concealed from us;
While as the fly gives place unto the gnat)
Seeth the glow…worms down along the valley;
Perchance there where he ploughs and makes his vintage;
With flames as manifold resplendent all
Was the eighth Bolgia; as I grew aware
As soon as I was where the depth appeared。
And such as he who with the bears avenged him
Beheld Elijah's chariot at departing;
What time the steeds to heaven erect uprose;
For with his eye he could not follow it
So as to see aught else than flame alone;
Even as a little cloud ascending upward;
Thus each along the gorge of the intrenchment
Was moving; for not one reveals the theft;
And every flame a sinner steals away。
I stood upon the bridge uprisen to see;
So that; if I had seized not on a rock;
Down had I fallen without being pushed。
And the Leader; who beheld me so attent;
Exclaimed: 〃Within the fires the spirits are;
Each swathes himself with that wherewith he burns。〃
〃My Master;〃 I replied; 〃by hearing thee
I am more sure; but I surmised already
It might be so; and already wished to ask thee
Who is within that fire; which comes so cleft
At top; it seems uprising from the pyre
Where was Eteocles with his brother placed。〃
He answered me: 〃Within there are tormented
Ulysses and Diomed; and thus together
They unto vengeance run as unto wrath。
And there within their flame do they lament
The ambush of the horse; which made the door
Whence issued forth the Romans' gentle seed;
Therein is wept the craft; for which being dead
Deidamia still deplores Achilles;
And pain for the Palladium there is borne。〃
〃If they within those sparks possess the power
To speak;〃 I said; 〃thee; Master; much I pray;
And re…pray; that the prayer be worth a thousand;
That thou make no denial of awaiting
Until the horned flame shall hither come;
Thou seest that with desire I lean towards it。〃
And he to me: 〃Worthy is thy entreaty
Of much applause; and therefore I accept it;
But take heed that thy tongue restrain itself。
Leave me to speak; because I have conceived
That which thou wishest; for they might disdain
Perchance; since they were Greeks; discourse of thine。〃
When now the flame had come unto that point;
Where to my Leader it seemed time and place;
After this fashion did I hear him speak:
〃O ye; who are twofold within one fire;
If I deserved of you; while I was living;
If I deserved of you or much or little
When in the world I wrote the lofty verses;
Do not move on; but one of you declare
Whither; being lost; he went away to die。〃
Then of the antique flame the greater horn;
Murmuring; began to wave itself about
Even as a flame doth which the wind fatigues。
Thereafterward; the summit to and fro
Moving as if it were the tongue that spake;
It uttered forth a voice; and said: 〃When I
From Circe had departed; who concealed me
More than a year there near unto Gaeta;
Or ever yet Aeneas named it so;
Nor fondness for my son; nor reverence
For my old father; nor the due affection
Which joyous should have made Penelope;
Could overcome within me the desire
I had to be experienced of the world;
And of the vice and virtue of mankind;
But I put forth on the high open sea
With one sole ship; and that small company
By which I never had deserted been。
Both of the shores I saw as far as Spain;
Far as Morocco; and the isle of Sardes;
And the others which that sea bathes round about。
I and my company were old and slow
When at that narrow passage we arrived
Where Hercules his landmarks set as signals;
That man no farther onward should adventure。
On the right hand behind me left I Seville;
And on the other already had left Ceuta。
'O brothers; who amid a hundred thousand
Perils;' I said; 'have come unto the West;
To this so inconsiderable vigil
Which is remaining of your senses still
Be ye unwilling to deny the knowledge;
Following the sun; of the unpeopled world。
Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang;
Ye were not made to live like unto brutes;
But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge。'
So eager did I render my companions;
With this brief exhortation; for the voyage;
That then I hardly could have held them back。
And having turned our stern unto the morning;
We of the oars made wings for our mad flight;
Evermore gaining on the larboard side。
Already all the stars of the other pole
The night beheld; and ours so very low
It did not rise above the ocean floor。
Five times rekindled and as many quenched
Had been the splendour underneath the moon;
Since we had entered into the deep pass;
When there appeared to us a mountain; dim
From distance; and it seemed to me so high
As I had never any one beheld。
Joyful were we;
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