Ares, furious with the spear. At his hand all will perish-
The infant child and the elder who legislates for assemblies.
For there will be many wars and battles and slaughters
10Famines and pestilence, earthquakes and fierce thunderbolts,
And many volleys of lightnings throughout the whole world,
And plundering and despoiling of temples

Gordianus III

Then indeed there will be an insurrection of enterprising persians,
Indians, Armenians, and Arabs, simultaneously, and round about these
15A Roman king will approach, insatiable for war,
A young Ares, leading on warriors even against Assyrians.
The warlike Ares will stretch out his spear, sending
As far as the deep-flowing, silver-eddying Euphrates
For the sake of retribution. For, betrayed by a companion,
20He will fall in the rank, smitten with glittering iron.

Phillippus

Immediately a warrior who loves the purple will rule.
Appearing from Syria, a terror of war, and with Caesar,
The son, he will also ravage the whole earth. Both
will have the one name, five hundred added
25To the first letter and the twentieth. But when there
lead in wars and become adjudicators,
there will be rest from war for a little while, not for ling.
But when the wolf pledges oaths to the flock
against the white-fanged dogs, then it will do mischief,
30hurting the wool-fleeced sheep, and will cast off the oaths.
Then also there will be lawless strife of overbearing kings
in wars. Syrians will perish terribly.
Indians, Armenians, Arabs, Persians, and Babylonians
will destroy each other through mighty war.
35But when the Roman Ares destroys the German,
having conquered the spirit-destroying Ares of the ocean,
then also the Persians, overbearing men,
will have war for many years, but they will not have victory.
For as a fish does not swim on the summit of a lofty rock
40with many ridges, windy and high,
nor does a tortoise fly nor an eagle swim in water,
so also the Persians are far from victory
on that day, insofar as the dear nurturer of Italians,
which lies in the plain of the Nile by the wondrous water.
45dispatches a seasonal tribute to seven-hilled Rome.
These things are fated. For as much, Rome, as your name
contains in numbers of counted time,
for that many years the marvelous great city
of the Macedonian prince will willingly supply you with corn.

Prophecies of woe against various peoples

50But I will sing another toilsome distress for the Alexandrians,
who will perish through strife of shameful men;
males, cowardly and without courage.
who will love peace by preference, on account of the wickedness of their leaders.
The wrath of the great God will also come upon the Assyrians,
55and a winter flood of a river will destroy them (a river) which will come
to the cities of Caesar and harm the Caanites.
The Pyramus will water the city of Mopsos, where the Aegeans
will fall on account of the strife of exceedingly mighty men.
Wretched Antioch, grievous Ares will not leave you,
60when Assyrian war presses around you.
For in your halls a leader of men will dwell
who will fight all the arrow-shooting Persians,
himself sprung from the royal dominion of the Romans.
Now cities of Arabs, be embellished with temples and stadia
65and broad marketplaces and resplendent wealth,
and statues of gold and silver and ivory,
but above all Bostra and Philippopolis, though given to learning,
that you may come to great grief.
For neither the joyful spheres of the circular zodiac,
70Ares, Taurus, and Gemini,
not those stars, regulating time, which appear
with these in heaven, in which you, wretched one, have trusted much,
will profit you when that day which is yours approaches hereafter.
Now I will sing most terrible wars for the Alexandrians,
75who love war. A great people will perish
when townsmen are destroyed by opposing citizens,
who fight for the sake of hateful strife.
Darting around these, Ares, terrible in appearance, will stir up (the strife) of war.
Then also the great-spirited one will fall, with his mighty son,
80by deceit on account of an older king.

Decius

After him another great-spirited prince, skilled in the art
of warfare, will rule mighty, flourishing Rome.
Emerging from the Dacians, he will be of the number
three hundred, with an initial of four. He will destroy many.
85And then the king will indeed slay all his kinsmen and
friends, and as kings perish
there will be immediately plunderings and murders of faithful men,
suddenly, because of the former king.

Mareades/Kyriades

Then when a deceitful man comes, a foreign ally,
90appearing as a bandit from Syria, an inconspicuous Roman,
he will also deceitfully approach the race of Cappadocians
and will beseige them and press them hard, insatiable for war.
Then you, Tyana and Mazaka, will experience captivity.
You will be in servitude, and will place your neck under the yoke for this man.
95Syria also will weep when men perish,
nor will Selenea then save its sacred town.
But when a wanton man flees from Syria in anticipation before
the Romans, fleeing through the streams of the Euphrates,
no longer like the Romans but like the proud arrow-shooting

Death of Decius

100Persians, then a lord of Italians,
will fall in the rank, smitten by glittering iron,
letting go his decorum. His sons will perish in addition to him.

Trebonianus Gallus

But when another king rules Rome
then also nations in agitation will come against the Romans;
105a destructive Ares, with a bastard child, against the walls of Rome,
Then indeed there will be famines, pestilence, and fierce thunderbolts,
and terrible wars and upheavals of cities,
suddenly. Syrians will perish frightfully.
For great wrath from the Most High will come upon them.
110Immediately there will be an insurrection of enterprising Persians.
Syrians, mingled with Persians, will slay Romans,
but nevertheless they will not conquer by the divinely decreed plan.
Alas, for as many as sprung from the East will flee,
with their possessions, to strange-tongued men.
115Alas, of how many men will the earth drink dark blood.
For this will be the time when the living one day
will pronounce a blessing on the dead with their mouths
and will say that death is fair, and it will evade them.

The return of Mareades/Kyriades

Now, wretched Syria, I bewail you piteously.
120On you too will come an affliction from arrow-shooting men,
a terrible one, which you never expected to come upon you.
For the fugitive of Rome will come, brandishing a spear,
having crossed the Euphrates with many myriads,
who will burn you down and dispose everything badly.
125Wretched Antioch, they will no longer call you a city
when you fall under spears by your own folly.
When he has completely plundered and stripped you he will abandon you,
exposed and uninhabited. Suddenly whoever sees you will weep.
And you, Hierapolis, will be a triumph-spectacle, and you, Beroea,
130you will weep with Chalcis for her newly slain children.

Further woes in the reign of Gallus

Alas, for as many as dwell on towering Mount Casius
and as many as are in Amanus and those whom Lycos deluges,
and Marsyas and silver-eddying Pyramus.
For they will dedicate spoils as far as the ends of Asia,
135having stripped cities, and they will take away the images of all
and cast down temples on the fertile earth.
Then there will be great affliction for Gallia and Pannonia,
Mysians and Bithynians, when the warrior comes.
O Lycians, Lycians, a wolf is coming to lick blood
140when the Sanni come with Ares, sacker of cities,
and the Carpians approach to fight against the Ausonians.
And then a bastard son, by his shameless daring,
will destroy a king but will immediately perish himself,
because of impiety. Afterward again another will rule,
145bearing dominion in his names. He will fall quickly,
smitten in mighty war with glittering iron.

Odenath

Again the world will be in chaos as men perish
by pestilence and war. Persians will again set out
to the tumult of Ares, raging against the Ausonians.
150Then there will be a flight of Romans, but afterward
the last priest of all will come, set from the sun,
appearing from Syria, and he will accomplish everything with deceit.
Then there will be a city of the sun. Around it
Persians will endure terrible threats of Phenicians.
155When two men, lords swift in war, rulw over
the exceedingly mighty Romans, the one will present
the number seventy, the other will be of the number three,
then also a stately bull digging the esrth
with its hoofs and raising dust with its two horns
160will do many evils to the dark-skinned serpent
which drags its coils on its scales. But he himself will perish with it.
After him another, a well-horned stag, will come again,
hungering in the mountains, desiring in its belly to eat
venomous beasts. Then will come, sent from the sun,
165a lion, terrible and frightful, breathing a great flame.
Then indeed he will destroy with much shameless daring
the stag, well-horned and swift, and the greatest beast,
the frightful venemous one which issues many hissing noises,
and the goat which goes sideways. Him will glory attend.
170He himself intact, unblemished and great,
will rule over the Romans, and the Persians will be powerless.

Conclusion
But God, prince, king of the world, stop the refrain
of our words, but grant a pleasant refrain.