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The Sibylline OraclesBook Five A Review of History But come, hear my woeful history of the Latin race. First of all, indeed, after the death of the kings Of Egypt, all of whom the evenhanded earth took under, And after the citizen of Pella, to whom 5All the East and prosperous West were subjected, Whom Babylon tested and held out as a corpse to Phillip, Alleged, not truly to be descended from Zeus or Ammon, (Alexander claimed to be Zeus) And after the one of the race and blood of Assaracus, Who came from Troy, who split the onslaught of fire, (Aeneas escaped from burning Troy) 10And after many princes, after warlike people, And after infants, children of the flock-devouring beasts, (Romulus and Remus) There will be the first prince who will sum up twice ten (Caesar) With his initial letter. He will conquer long in wars. He will have his first letter of ten, (Julius) so that after him 15Will reign whoever obtained as initial the first of the alphabet. (Augustus) Thrace will crouch before him and Sicily, then Memphis. Memphis, cast down headlong through the wickedness of its leaders And of an indomitable woman who fell upon the wave. (Cleopatra at Actium) He will give laws to the peoples and subordinate all things. 20After a long tine he will hand over sovereignty to another, Who will present a first letter of three hundred, And the beloved name of a river. (Tiberius) He will rule over Persians And Babylon. He will enedde then sonquer the Medes with the spear. Then whoever ebtained an initial of three will rule. (Gaios=Caligula) 25Next, a prince who will have twice ten on his first letter. (Claudius) But he will reach the farthest water of Oceanus Cleaving the tide under the Ausonians. One who has fifty as an initial will be commander, A terrible snake, breathing out grievous war, who one day 30Will lay hands on his own family and slay them, and throw everything into confusion, Athlete, charioteer, murderer, one who dares ten thousand things. (Nero) He will also cut the mountain betseen two seas and defile it with gore, But even when he disappeare he will be destructive. Then he will return Declaring himself equal to God. But he will prove that he is not. 35Three princes after him will perish at each others hands. (Vitellius, Otho, and Galbe) Then will come a certain great destroyer of pious men, Who show a clear initial of seven times ten. (Vespasian) His son, with a first initial of three hundred, will get the better of him (Titus) And take away his power. After him will be a commander, 40With an initial of four, a cursed man, (Domitian) But then A revered man, of the number fifty. (Nerva) After him one who obtained a marked initial of three hundred, (Trajan) a celtic mountaineer, hastening to an Eastern war. He will not avoid an unseemly fate, but will die. 45Foreign dust will cover him, a corpse, but dust which Has the name of the Nemean flower. After him another will reign, A silver-headed man. He will have the name of a sea. (Hadrian) He will also be a most excellent man and he will consider everything. And in your time, most excellent, outstanding , dark-haired one, 50And in the days of your descendants, all these days will come to pass. After him three will rule, but the third will come to power late in life. (Antoninus Pius, Lucius Verus, and Marcus Aurelius) Prophecies of Destruction Against Egypt Thrice-wretched one, I am weary of putting an utterance of disaster in my heart And the inspired chant of oracles, I who am the familiar friend of Isis. First, indeed, around the steps of your much-lamented temple 55Maenads will dart, and you will be in bad hands On that day, when the Nile traverses The whole land of Egypt up to sixteen cubits, So as to flood the whole land and drench it with streams. The beauty of the land and glory of its appearance will disappear. 60Memphis, you indeed will weep most of all over Egypt, For formerly you were the one who mightily ruled the land, Wretched one, so that even he who rejoices in thunder will cry out From heaven with a great voice, “Mighty Memphis, Who formerly boasted most to wretched mortals, 65You will weep in dire straits and disastrous fate So that the eternal immortal God will notice you in the clouds. Where is your sturdy spirit among men? Because you raged against my children who were anointed by God And incited evil against good men, 70You in return have such a nurse for recompense. You will no longer have any right openly among the blessed. You have fallen from the stars, you will not go up to heaven. These things God bade me declare to Egypt In the final time when men will be utterly evil. 75But the wicked endure evil, awaiting The anger of the immortal deep-sounding heavenly one. They worship stones and brute beasts instead of God, Revering very many things, one here another there, which have no reason, Or mind or hearing, and things which it is not even lawful for me to mention, 80The particular types of idols, brought into being by the hands of mortals. From their own labors and wicked notions, Men have accepted gods of wood and stone. They have made them of bronze and gold and silver, vain, Lifeless, dumb, and smelted in fire, 85Vainly putting their trust in such as these. Thmouis and Xouis are oppressed, (towns in Egypt) the counsel of Heracles, Zeus, and Hermas is cut off, And you, Alexandria, famous nurse of cities, War will not leave you… 90You will make retribution for pride, the things you formerly did. You will be silent for a long age, and the day of return… And the luxurious drink will no longer flow for you… The Return of Nero For the Persian will come onto your soil like hail, And he will destroy your land and evil-devising men 95With blood and corpses, by terrible altars, A savage-minded mighty man, much-bloodied, raving nonsense, With a full host numerous as sand, bringing destruction on you. And then, most prosperous of cities, you will be in great distress. All Asia, falling to the ground, will lament for the gifts she enjoyed from you 100When she wore a crown on her head. But the one who obtained the land of the Persians will fight, And killing every man he will destroy all life So that a one-third portion will remain for wretched mortals. He himself will rush in with a light bound from the West, 105Besieging the entire land, laying it all waste. But when he attains a formidable height and unseemly daring, He will also come, wishing to destroy the city of the blessed ones, And then a certain king sent from God against him Will destroy all the great kings and noble men. 110Thus there will be judgment on men by the imperishable one. Prophesies lf Destruction Against Various Eastern Places Alas for you, wretched hears, why do you provoke me To show these things to Egypt, a grievous multiplicity of sovereignty? Go to the East, to the mindless tribes of the Persians, And show them what now is and what will be. 115The current of the river Euphrates will bring on a flood And will destroy Persians, Iberians, and Babylonians And Massagetae, who love war and trust in bows. All Asia will blaze, burned with fire as far as the islands. Pergamos, which was formerly revered, will perish like a bunch of grapes, 120And Pitane will appear totally desolate among men. All Lesbos will sink in the deep abyss, so as to perish. Smyrna will one day weep, rolled down the cliffs. She who was once revered and famous will perish. Bithynians will bewail their land, reduced to ashes, 125And great Syria, and Phoenicia of many tribes. Woe to you, Lycia, how many evils the sea Devises against you, spontaneously encroaching on the grievous land. So that it will flood with a bad earthquake and bitter streams The watery shore of Lycia which once breathed perfume. 130A terrible wrath will also come upon Phrygia because of the pain For which Rhea, mother of Zeus, came and remained there, The sea will destroy the race and savage people of the Tauri And will destroy the plain of the Lapiths and break it off down from the earth. A deep-eddying river, deep-flowing Peneius, will destroy the land of Thessaly, 135Chasing men from the land, Eridanus which claims to have once begotten forms of wild beasts. The Career of Nero and His Flight to the East The poets will bewail thrice-wretched Greece When a great king of great Rome, a godlike man From Italy, will cut the ridge of the isthmus. 140Him, they say, Zeus himself begot and lady Hera. Playing at theatricals with honey-sweet songs rendered With melodious boice. He will destroy many men, and his wretched mother. He will flee from Babylon, a terrible and shameless prince Whom all mortals and noble men despise. 145For he destroyed many men and laid hands on the womb. He sinned against spouses, and was sprung from abominable people. He will come to the Medes and to the kings of the Persians, Those whom he first desired and to whom he gave glory, Lurking with these evil ones against a true people. 150He seized the divinely built Temple and burned the citizens And peoples who went into it, men whom I rightly praised. For on his appearance the whole creation was shaken And kings perished, and those in whom sovereignty remained Destroyed a great city and righteous people. Cosmic Destruction 155But when after the fourth year a great star shines Which alone will destroy the whole earth, because of The honor which they first gave to Poseidon of the sea, A great star will come from heaven to the wondrous sea And will burn the deep sea and Babylon itself 160And the land of Italy, because of which many Holy faithful Hebrews and a true people perished. Oracle Against Rome You will be among evil mortals, suffering evils, But you will remain utterly desolate for all ages yet, It will exist, but it will remain utterly desolate forever, 165Despising your soil, because you desired sorcery. With you are found adulteries and illicit intercourse with boys. Effeminate and unjust, evil city, ill-fated above all. Alas, city of the Latin land, unclean in all things, Maenad, rejoicing in vipers, as a widow you will sit 170By the banks, and the river Tiber will weep for you, its consort. You have a murderous heart and impious spirit. Did you not know what God can do, what he devises? But you said, “I alone am, and no one will ravage me.” But now God, who is forever, will destroy you and all your people, 175And there will no longer be any sign of you in that land, As there was formerly, when the great God found your honors. Remain alone, lawless one. Mingles with burning fire, Inhabit the lawless nether region of Hades. Oracles of Destruction Against Egypt Now again, Egypt, I will bewail your fate. 180Memphis, you will be leader of labors, smitten on the ankles. In you the pyramids will utter a shameless sound. Python, rightly called “double-city” of old, Be silent forever, so that you may desist from wickedness. Arrogance, treasury of evil labors, maenad of many laments, 185Dire sufferer, tearful one, you will remain a widow forever. For many years you alone were ruler of the world. But when Barca (a city captured by the Persians in the time of Darius) puts on a white skirt Over a dirty one, may I neither be nor come into being. O Thebes, where is your great strength? A savage man 190Will destroy your people. But you will take gray garments And lament, wretched one, alone, and will make retribution for everything Which you did before, having a shameless spirit. They will see lamentations because of lawless deeds. A great man of the Ethiopians will destroy Syene. 195Dark-skinned Indians will occupy Teuchira (Arsinoe) by force. Pentapolis, you will weep, but a very mighty man will destroy you. Much lamented Libya, who will narrate your doom? Cyrene, who of men will weep piteously for you? You will not desist, from hideous lamentation until the time of destruction. An Oracle Against the Gauls 200Among the Britains and wealthy Gauls The ocean will be resounding, filled with much blood, For they also did evil to the children of God When the purple king led a great Gallic host From Syria against the Sidonians. He will also kill you, 205Ravenna, and lead you to slaughter. Destruction for the Ethiopians Indians, have no courage, and great-spirited Ethiopians, For when the wheel of arched Axis, Capricorn And Tarus amid Gemini, revolves in mid-heaven, Virgo, coming forth, and the sun, fixing a belt 210All about its brow, shall lead. There will be a greatly heavenly conflagration on earth And from the battling stars a new nature will emerge, So that the whole land of the Ethiopians will perish in fire and groanings. The Return of Nero You, too, Corinth, bewail the mournful destruction within you. 215For when the three sister Fates, spinning with twisted threads, Lead the one who is (now) fleeing deceitfully Beyond the bank of the isthmus on high so that all may see him, Who formerly cut out the rock with ductile bronze, He will destroy and ravage your land also, as is decreed. 220For to him God gave strength to perform Things like no previous one of all the kings. For, first of all, cutting off the roots from three heads Mightily with a blow, he will give them to others to eat, So that they will eat the flesh of the parents of the impious king. 225For murder and terrors are in store for all men Because of the great city and righteous people which is Preserved throughout everything, which Providence held in special place. Denunciation of Arrogance Arrogance, unstable one of evil counsels, surrounded by evil fates, Beginning and great end of toil for men 230When creation is damaged and saved again by the Fates. Leader of evils and great affliction to men, Which of mortals desired you, who did not resent you within. By you a certain king, cast down destroyed his revered life. You arranged all things badly and brought on a full flood of evil, 235And through you the beautiful folds of the world were changed. Put forward these causes for our strife. Perhaps they are the last. How and what do you say? I will persuade you and even if I blame you somewhat I will speak. Praise and Exaltation of the Jews There was once among men a chining light of the sun When the harmonious ray of the prophets was being spread abroad, 240A tongue dripping a beautiful drink for all mortals with honeyed sweetness; It made manifest, offered and effected gentle things for all. Therefore, narrow-minded leader of greatest evils, The reaping hook and grief will come in that day. Beginning and great end of toil for men, 245When creation is damaged and saved by the Fates. Give ear to the bitter harsh-sounding speech, you affliction to men. But whenever the Persian land desists from war, Pestilence, and groaning, then on that day it will come to pass that The divine and heavenly race of the blessed Jews, 250Who live around the city of God in the middle of the earth, Are raised up even to the dark clouds, Having built a great wall round about, as far as Joppa. No longer will trumpet whistle the sound of war, And no longer will they perish at raging hostile hands, 255But they will set up trophies won from the wicked, forever. There will again be one exceptional man from the sky Who stretched out his hand on the fruitful wood, The best on the Hebrews, who will one day cause the sun to stand, speaking with fair speech and holy lips. 260Blessed one, no longer weary your spirit in your breast, Divinely born, wealthy, sole-desired flower, Good light, holy shoot, beloved plant, Delightful Judea, fair city, inspired with hymns. No longer will the unclean foot of Greeks 265Revel around your land but they will have a mind in their breasts that conforms to your laws. But glorious children will honor you exceedingly, And they will attend table with devout music, All sorts of sacrifices and with prayers honoring God. Such righteous men as endured toils will receive 270Greater, pleasant things in exchange for a little distress. But the wicked, who dispatched lawless utterance against heaven, Will desist from speaking against each other But will hide themselves until the world is changed. There will be a shower of blazing fire from the clouds, 275And mortals will no longer enjoy bright corn from the earth. All will remain unsown and unplowed until mortal men Pay attention to the immortal eternal God, ruler of all, And no longer honor mortal things, Neither dogs nor vultures, which Egypt taught 280Men to revere with vain mouths and foolish lips. But the holy land of the pious alone will bear all these things; A honey-sweet stream from rock and spring, And heavenly milk will flow for all the righteous. For with great piety and faith they put their hope 285In the one begetter, God, who alone is eminent. Woe for Asia But why does my clever mind suggest these things to me? Now, wretched Asia, I bewail you piteously And the race of Ionians, Carians, and Lydians rich in gold. Woe to you, Sardis, woe lovely Trallis, 290Woe Laodicea, beautiful city, how you will perish Destroyed by earthquakes and changed to dust. To dark Asia… The well-built shrine of Artemis of Ephesus With cleavings and earthquakes will fall to the wondrous sea, 295Headlong, as storm winds overwhelm ships, Ephesus, supine, will wail, weeping on the shores, Seeking the temple which is no longer there. And then the imperishable God who dwells in the sky in anger Will cast a lightning bolt from heaven against the power of the impious. 300Instead of winter there will be summer on that day And then indeed there will be great affliction for mortal men For the One who thunders on high will destroy all shameless men With thunders and lightnings and blazing thunderbolts On hostile men, and he will destroy the impious in such a manner 305That corpses will remain on earth more numerous than sand. Smyrna also will come, bewailing its musician, To the gates of Ephesus, and she herself will truly perish. Foolish Cyme, with her divinely inspired streams, Cast down at the hands of godless, unjust and lawless men, 310Will no longer take her chariot forward to such a height But will remain, a corpse, in swelling streams. And then they will cry out at once, awaiting evil. The difficult people and shameless tribe of the Cumaeans Will have a sign and know because of what it labored. 315Then when they bewail a wicked land reduced to ashes, Lesbos will be destroyed forever by Eridanus. Woe to you Cibyra, fair city, desist from revelry. Hieropolis also, the only land which has mingled with Pluton, You will have what you have desired to have, a land of many tears, 320Piling a mound on the earth by the streams pf Thermodon. Rock-clinging Tripolis by the waters of the Maeander, Apportioned to nightly waves on the shore, The providence of God will one day destroy you utterly. May I never willingly take the land which is neighbor to Phoebus. 325A lightning bolt from above will one day destroy luxurious Miletus Because it chose the deceitful strain of Phoebus And the clever practice of men and prudent counsel. Prayer for Judea Be gracious, begetter of all, to the fertile, luxurious, Great land of Judea, so that we may behold your plans. 330For you knew this one first, God, with favors, So that she seemed to be your special gift to all men And to attend as God enjoined. Woes for Europe Thrice wretched one, I desire to see the affairs of the Thracians And the wall between two seas swept down in the dust 335By Ares (sweeping) like a river on a fishing diver. Wretched Hellespont, one day the offspring of the Assyrians will put a yoke on you. (Xerxes’ bridge across the Hellespont in 481 B.C.) The battle of the Thracians against you will utterly destroy your mighty strength. An Egyptian king seizes Macedonia, And a foreign region will cast down the strength of leaders. (Seleucus I defeated Lysimachus of Thrace in 281B.C.) 340Lydians and Galatians, Pamphylians and Pisidians En masse will conquer, armed in evil strife. Thrice-wretched Italy, all desolate, unwept, you will await A destructive beast in a blooming land, to be destroyed It will be possible to hear a heavenly crash of thunder, the voice of God 345Throughout broad heaven above. The imperishable flames of the sun itself will no longer be, Nor will the shining light of the moon be anymore In the last time, when God assumes command. Everything will be blackened, there will be darkness throughout the earth, 350And blind men, evil wild beasts, and woe. That day will last a long time, so that men Will take note of God himself, the prince who oversees all from heaven. Then he will not pity hostile men Who sacrifice herds of lambs and sheep, and loud-bellowing bulls, 355And great golden-horned calves To lifeless Hermes and gods of stone. But let law, wisdom, and glory rule over the righteous, Lest one day the imperishable God in anger destroy The livelihood of men with every race and a shameless tribe. 360It is necessary to love God, the wise eternal begetter. The Return of Nero There will come to pass in the last time about the waning of the moon A war which will throw the world into confusion and be deceptive in guile. A man who is a matricide will come from the ends of the earth In flight and devising penetrating schemes in his mind. 365He will destroy every land and conquer all And consider all things more wisely than all men. He will immediately seize the one because of whom he himself perished. He will destroy many men and great rulers, And he will set fire to all men as no one else ever did. 370Through zeal he will raise up those who were crouched in fear. There will come upon men a great war from the West. Blood will flow up to the bank of deep-eddying rivers. Wrath will drip in the plains of Macedonia, An alliance to the people from the West, but destruction for the king. 375Then a wintry blast will blow throughout the land, And the plain will be filled again with evil war. For fire will rain on men from the floors of heaven, Fire and blood, water, lightning bolt, darkness, heavenly night, And destruction in war, and a mist over the slain 380Will destroy at once all kings and noble men. Then the piteous destruction of war will cease thus And no longer will anyone fight with swords or iron Or with weapons at all, which will no longer be lawful. A wise people which is left will have peace, 385Having experienced evil so that it might later rejoice. Admonition to the Romans Matricides, desist from boldness and evil daring, You who formerly impiously catered for pederasty And set up in houses prostitutes who were pure before, With insults and punishment and toilsome disgrace. 390For in you mother had intercourse with child unlawfully, And daughter was joined with her begetter as bride. In you also kings defiled their ill-fated mouths. In you also evil men practiced bestiality. Be silent, most lamentable evil city, which indulges in revelry. 395For no longer in you will virgin maidens Tend the divine fire of sacred nourishing wood. Destruction of the Temple The desired Temple has long ago been extinguished by you, When I saw the second Temple cast headlong, Soaked in fire by an impious hand, 400The ever-flourishing, watchful Temple of God Made by holy people and hoped By their soul and body to be always imperishable. For among them no one carelessly praises a god Of insignificant clay, nor did a clever sculptor make one from rock, 405Nor worship ornament of gold, a deception of souls. But they honored the great God, begetter of all Who have God-given breath, with holy sacrifices and hecatombs. But now a certain insignificant and impious king Has gone up, cast it sown, and left it in ruins 410With a great horde and illustrious men. He himself perished at immortal hands when he left the land, And no such sign has yet been performed among men That others should think to sack a great city. The Advent of a Savior Figure For a blessed man came from the expanses of heaven 415With a scepter in his hands which God gave him, And he gained sway over all things well, and gave back the wealth To all the good, which previous men had taken. He destroyed every city from its foundations with much fire And burned nations of mortals who were formerly evildoers. 420And the city which God desired, this he made More brilliant than stars and sun and moon, And he provided ornament and made a holy temple, Exceedingly beautiful in its fair shrine, and he fashioned A great and immense tower over many stadia 425Touching even the clouds and visible to all, So that all faithful and all righteous people could see The glory of eternal God, a form desired. East and West sang out the glory of God. For terrible things no longer happen to wretched mortals, 430No adulteries or illicit love of boys, No murder, or din of battle, but competition is fait among all. It is the last time of holy people when God, who thunders on high, Founder of the greatest temple, accomplishes these things. An Oracle Against Babylon Woe to you, Babylon, of golden throne and golden sandal. 435For many years you were the sole kingdom ruling over the world. You who were formerly great and universal, you will no longer lie On golden mountains and streams of the Euphrates. You will be spread out flat by the turmoil of an earthquake. Terrible Parthians Made you shake all over. Restrain your mouth with a bridle, 440Impious race of Babylonians. Neither ask nor take thought How you will rule over the Persians or how you will hold sway over the Medes Because of your dominion which you had, you will send to Rome Hostages, even those who were in bondage to Asia. So also, though thinking as a queen, you will come 445Under the judgment of your adversaries on whose account you sent ransom. You will pay a bitter reckoning to your enemies in return for your crooked words. Eschatological Upheavels In the last time, one day the sea will be dry, And ships will then no longer sail to Italy. Great Asia then will be water, bearing all cargo, 450And Crete a plain. Cyprus will have a great affliction, And Paphus will bewail a terrible fate so that even The great city of Salamis, suffering a great affliction, will notice it. Now there will again be barren dry land on the shore. A not inconsiderable swarm of locusts will destroy the land of Cyprus. 455Ill-fated men, you will weep when you look toward Tyre. Phoenicia, terrible wrath awaits you, until you fall A bad fall so that the Sirens may truly weep. It will come to pass in the fifth generation when the destruction of Egypt Ceases, when the shameless kings intermingle. 460The clans of the Pamphylians will settle in Egypt And in Macedonia, and in Asia, and among the Lycians There will be a bloody war throwing the world into confusion in dust, Which a king of Rome and the potentates of the West will stop. Whenever a wintry blast drips as snow, 465When a great river and the biggest lakes are frozen over, Immediately a barbarian throng will march to the land of Asia And will destroy the race of terrible Thracians as if it were weak. Then desperate men weakened by famine Will devour their parents and gulp them down as food. 470Wild beasts will devour the table from all dwellings. Even birds will devour all mortals. The blood y ocean will be filled with flesh And blood of the senseless, from evil war. There will be such weakness on earth 475That it will be possible to know the number of men and count of women. A wretched generation will groan ten thousandfold at the end When the sun is setting so that it never rise again, Remaining to be plunged in the waters of the ocean, For it saw the impious wickedness of many men. 480There will be moonless night round the great heaven itself. No small mist will cover the folds of the world about, A second time. But then the light of God will lead The good men, as many as sang out the praise of God. The Conversion of Egypt Isis, thrice-wretched goddess, you will remain by the streams of the Nile 485Alone, a speechless maenad on the sands of the Acheron. No longer will memory of you remain throughout the whole earth. And you Sarapis, reposing on many unwrought stones, Will lie, a very great casualty in thrice-wretched Egypt. But as many as brought the desire of Egypt to you will all 490Bewail you bitterly, turning their attention to the imperishable God, Those who sang out your praises as a god will know that you are nothing. Then a man clad in linen, one of the priests, will say, “Come, let us erect a sanctuary of the true God. Come, let us change the terrible custom we have received from our ancestors 495On account of which they performed processions and rites To gods of stone and earthenware, and were devoid of sense. Let us turn our souls, singing out the praises of the imperishable God Himself, the begetter who is eternal The ruler of all, the true one, the king, 500The begetter who nourishes souls, the great eternal God.” Then there will be a great holy temple in Egypt. And a people fashioned by God will bring sacrifices to it. To them the imperishable God will grant to reside there. But when the Ethiopians leave the shameless tribes of the Triballi 505And are about to till the land of Egypt, They will launch on a course of wickedness, so that all the late things may come to pass, For they will destroy the great temple of the land of Egypt. God will rain on them a terrible wrath, down on earth, So as to destroy all the wicked and all the lawless. 510There will no longer be any sparing in that land, Because they did not guard what God entrusted to them. The Battle of the Stars I saw the threat of the burning sun among the stars And the terrible wrath of the moon among the lightning flashes. The stars travailed in battle, God bade them fight. 515For over against the sun long flames were in strife, And the two-horned rush of the moon was changed. Lucifer fought, mounted on the back of Leo. Capricorn smote the ankle of young Taurus, And Taurus deprived Capricorn of his day of return. 520Orion removed Libra so that it remained no more. Virgo changed the destiny of Gemini in Aries. The Pleiad no longer appeared and Draco rejected its belt. Pisces submerged themselves in the girdle of Leo. Cancer did not stand its ground, for it feared Orion. 525Scorpio got under the tail because of terrible Leo., and the dog star perished by the flame of the sun. The strength of the mighty day star burned up Aquarius. Heaven itself was roused until it shook the fighters. In anger it cast them headlong to earth. 530Accordingly, stricken into the baths of ocean, They quickly kindled the whole earth. But the sky remained starless. | |||
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