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the divine comedy(神曲)-第22章

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  While living were; and therefore are cleft thus。

A devil is behind here; who doth cleave us
  Thus cruelly; unto the falchion's edge
  Putting again each one of all this ream;

When we have gone around the doleful road;
  By reason that our wounds are closed again
  Ere any one in front of him repass。

But who art thou; that musest on the crag;
  Perchance to postpone going to the pain
  That is adjudged upon thine accusations?〃

〃Nor death hath reached him yet; nor guilt doth bring him;〃
  My Master made reply; 〃to be tormented;
  But to procure him full experience;

Me; who am dead; behoves it to conduct him
  Down here through Hell; from circle unto circle;
  And this is true as that I speak to thee。〃

More than a hundred were there when they heard him;
  Who in the moat stood still to look at me;
  Through wonderment oblivious of their torture。

〃Now say to Fra Dolcino; then; to arm him;
  Thou; who perhaps wilt shortly see the sun;
  If soon he wish not here to follow me;

So with provisions; that no stress of snow
  May give the victory to the Novarese;
  Which otherwise to gain would not be easy。〃

After one foot to go away he lifted;
  This word did Mahomet say unto me;
  Then to depart upon the ground he stretched it。

Another one; who had his throat pierced through;
  And nose cut off close underneath the brows;
  And had no longer but a single ear;

Staying to look in wonder with the others;
  Before the others did his gullet open;
  Which outwardly was red in every part;

And said: 〃O thou; whom guilt doth not condemn;
  And whom I once saw up in Latian land;
  Unless too great similitude deceive me;

Call to remembrance Pier da Medicina;
  If e'er thou see again the lovely plain
  That from Vercelli slopes to Marcabo;

And make it known to the best two of Fano;
  To Messer Guido and Angiolello likewise;
  That if foreseeing here be not in vain;

Cast over from their vessel shall they be;
  And drowned near unto the Cattolica;
  By the betrayal of a tyrant fell。

Between the isles of Cyprus and Majorca
  Neptune ne'er yet beheld so great a crime;
  Neither of pirates nor Argolic people。

That traitor; who sees only with one eye;
  And holds the land; which some one here with me
  Would fain be fasting from the vision of;

Will make them come unto a parley with him;
  Then will do so; that to Focara's wind
  They will not stand in need of vow or prayer。〃

And I to him: 〃Show to me and declare;
  If thou wouldst have me bear up news of thee;
  Who is this person of the bitter vision。〃

Then did he lay his hand upon the jaw
  Of one of his companions; and his mouth
  Oped; crying: 〃This is he; and he speaks not。

This one; being banished; every doubt submerged
  In Caesar by affirming the forearmed
  Always with detriment allowed delay。〃

O how bewildered unto me appeared;
  With tongue asunder in his windpipe slit;
  Curio; who in speaking was so bold!

And one; who both his hands dissevered had;
  The stumps uplifting through the murky air;
  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 who

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