The Satyricon by Petronius

Author:Petronius [Petronius]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141969756
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2011-09-08T04:00:00+00:00

50 They lock little fingers into the snake-jaws,

Each for the other, neither from self-love –

Brother for brother, their love is requited,

Death a deliverance from mutual mourning.

Added then unto their doom is the old one,

Hopeless as helper.

The serpents, sated from slaying,

Beset him, bear to the earth his body,

He lies mid the altars, priest now a victim,

Making the ground groan.

60 What is sacred is soiled, Troy, doomed to destruction,

Destroys first its godhead.

Full moon aloft had lifted its white glow,

Leading the lesser lights with radiant torchbrand:

The sons of Priam were sleeping and wine-soaked –

“Undo the bolts, ye Danaans, bring out your brave ones!”

Chieftains acquitting themselves in combat,

As in Thessalian hills a horse out of halter

Shakes its neck and its mane, for the onrush.

Swords now unsheathed, brandishing bucklers,

70 They fly to the fray, dealing death to the drunken,

Sent in their sleep to the death-sleep;

Here brands are brought from the altars

To turn against Troy town the worship of Trojans.’

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