前言：本文僅為考據(jù)，對考察推測作用有限，剛好找到資源又沒看到人發(fā)，于是簡單整理了一下（英文警告）

先明確一個問題，一般認(rèn)為《啟示錄》寫與96年，而尼祿復(fù)活傳說的產(chǎn)生在那之前，可以說是尼祿妖魔化的源泉，并促成了約翰寫成《啟示錄》。

后來尼祿復(fù)活傳說和《啟示錄》結(jié)合后變得更離譜了，把尼祿和敵基督、撒旦、貝利爾結(jié)合在一起了。

fgo中Beast VI特別強調(diào)尼祿的末日毀滅者的形象，而非反抗神的罪人，可能也是為了照樣尼祿源生的傳說。

關(guān)于尼祿復(fù)活傳說Nero Redvivus

想傳尼祿還活著時就有人預(yù)言未來他會從東方歸來。

尼祿自殺后，人們不相信他死了，認(rèn)為他會“復(fù)活”后歸來，于是誕生了nero redivivus的傳說。

后來羅馬的官方預(yù)言書《西比拉神諭》中也出現(xiàn)了暗示尼祿復(fù)活的內(nèi)容加劇了這種迷信的傳播。奧古斯都的《上帝之城》有提及，尼祿復(fù)活傳說只到公元五世紀(jì)仍然有人相信。

羅馬帝國第十一位皇帝多米田（不算在fate系列里七頭十角代表的十王里）由于和尼祿相像的政治制度和迫害基督教的行為等原因，被人們認(rèn)為是“尼祿的化身”、第二尼祿、小尼祿，被認(rèn)為是復(fù)活的尼祿。

也正是多米田將約翰囚禁直至他統(tǒng)治結(jié)束，促成了約翰寫出《啟示錄》。

《啟示錄》中七頭十角獸的一個頭受傷又復(fù)活被認(rèn)為就是暗示尼祿，并且?guī)砘葹?zāi)的亞巴頓也被認(rèn)為是在諷刺喜歡“阿波羅”的多米田和尼祿。

過早的資料不好找，但是我找到了《西比拉神諭》的資源，從中可以看到和《啟示錄》結(jié)合后的產(chǎn)物——尼祿變?yōu)榱藲绲氖拐?、末日的化身?/p>

由于是英文版，比較難懂，能理解上述內(nèi)容基本就能搞明白我講了什么東西。

西比拉神諭中對尼祿的關(guān)鍵詞就是“毀滅”、“破壞城市”、“殺人”、“戰(zhàn)爭”、“復(fù)活”、“血與戰(zhàn)爭”、“烈火與海嘯”等等，總之就是fgo中beast6 sodom突出展現(xiàn)的末日特征。??

Book 3

(29-50.)

And then shall come inexorable wrath

On Latin men; three shall by piteous fate

Endamage Rome. And perish shall all men,

With their own houses, when from heaven shall flow

65 A fiery cataract. Ah, wretched me!

When shall that day and when shall judgment come

Of the immortal God, the mighty King?

But just now, O ye cities, ye are built

And all adorned with temples and race-grounds,

70 Markets, and images of wood, of gold,

Of silver and of stone, that ye may come

Unto the bitter day. For it shall come,

When there shall pass among all men a stench

Of brimstone. Yet each thing will I declare,

75 In all the cities where men suffer ills.

From the Sebastenes Beliar shall come

Hereafter, and the height of hills shall he

Establish, and shall make the sea stand still

And the great fiery sun and the bright moon

80 And he shall raise the dead, and many signs

Work before men: but nothing shall be brought

By him unto completion but deceit,

And many mortals shall be lead astray

Hebrews both true and choice, and lawless men

[62. Three.–One most naturally thinks here of the famous triumvirate of Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus; but it is difficult to explain the “fiery cataract” (line 65) and other pictures of judgment in immediate connection with those historic names.

76. The Sebastenes are most naturally understood of the inhabitants of Sebaste, or Samaria, and a Jewish writer living in the time of Augustus might have been readily disposed to think of a Beliar–antichrist–as issuing from among the hated Samaritans. Comp. the miracle-working antichrist of Dan. vii 25; viii, 23-25; xi, 36; and also 2 Thess. ii, 8-10.]

(51-69.)

85 Besides who never gave ear to God's word.

But when the threatenings of the mighty God

Shall draw near, and a flaming power shall come

By billow to the earth, it shall consume

Both Beliar and all the haughty men

90 Who put their trust in him. And thereupon

Shall the whole world be governed by the hands

Of a woman and obedient everywhere.

Then when a widow shall o'er all the world

Gain the rule, and cast in the mighty sea

95 Both gold and silver, also brass and iron

Of short lived men into the deep shall cast,

Then all the elements shall be bereft

Of order, when the God who dwells on high

Shall roll the heaven, even as a scroll is rolled;

100 And to the mighty earth and sea shall fall

The entire multiform sky; and there shall flow

A tireless cataract of raging fire,

And it shall burn the land, and burn the sea,

And heavenly sky, and night, and day, and melt

105 Creation itself together and pick out

What is pure. No more laughing spheres of light,

Nor night, nor dawn, nor many days of care,

Nor spring, nor winter, nor the summer-time,

[92-93. A woman … a widow.–If we find in the “three” of line 62 a reference to the triumvirs Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus, it is but natural to understand this “widow” as Cleopatra of Egypt, who captivated by her charms both Julius Caesar and Antony. But here again the picture of world-judgment which immediately follows is difficult to account for in connection with such a mention of Cleopatra. Is not the entire passage rather an ideal apocalyptic concept, to be understood somewhat after the manner of the woman portrayed in John's Apocalypse, xvii, 3; xviii, 7; a symbol of Rome herself conceived as the mistress of nations? Comp. book viii, 263; 165, Comp. book ii, 263; viii, 646.]

(443-461.)

{p. 79}

580 Shall swallow down those who are by the fire

And stench of brimstone heavily oppressed.

And Samos shall in time build royal houses.

But to thee, Italy, no foreign war

Shall come, but lamentable tribal blood

585 Not easily exhausted, much renowned,

Shall make thee, impudent one, desolate.

And thou thyself beside hot ashes stretched,

As thou in thine own heart didst not foresee,

Shalt slay thyself. And thou shalt not of men

590 Be mother, but a nurse of beasts of prey.

But when from Italy shall come a man,

A spoiler, then, Laodicea, thou,

Beautiful city of the Carians

By Lycus's wondrous water, falling prone,

595 Shalt weep in silence for thy boastful sire.

Thracian Crobyzi shall rise up on H?mus.

Chatter of teeth to the Campanians comes

Because of wasting famine; Corsica

Weeps her old father, and Sardinia

600 Shall by great storms of winter and the strokes

[587. Hot ashes.–Allusion to eruptions of Vesuvius. Comp. book. iv, 172.

592. Spoiler.–L. Scipio, according to some; Nero, according to others; but the reference is uncertain. “The entire picture,” says Ewald (p. 38), “is so vast and so general that we cannot think of it as referring to an event that had already taken place.” Laodicea.–Situated on the Lycus as here described, and on the borders of Lydia, Caria, and Phrygia. It suffered much by wars and earthquakes.

595. Boastful sire.–Antiochus Theos, who named it in honor of his wife Laodice.

596. Crobyzi.–Mentioned by Strabo (vii, 5, 12) as occupying the district near Mt. H?mus and south of the Danube.

597. Campanians.–Campania was the district of Italy south of Latium, on the seacoast. Vesuvius was near its central part.]

Book 4

140 Shalt stand. O Lycia Myra beautiful,

Thee never shall the agitated earth

Set fast; but falling headlong down on earth

Shalt thou, in manner like an alien, pray

To flee away into another land,

145 When sometime the dark water of the sea

With thunders and earthquakes shall stop the din

Of Patara for its impieties.

Also for thee, Armenia, there remains

A slavish fate; and there shall also come

150 To Solyma an evil blast of war

From Italy, and God's great temple spoil.

But when these, trusting folly, shall cast off

Their piety and murders consummate

Around the temple, then front Italy

155 A mighty king shall like a runaway slave

Flee over the Euphrates' stream unseen,

[138. Lay low.–Read {Greek strw'sei}. Comp. book v, 587 (Greek text, 438). So Mendelssohn, favored by Rzach.

140. Myra.–Chief city of Lycia, on the southern coast, about a league from the sea. Its ruins witness to its ancient wealth and beauty.

147. Patara.–Sec book iii, 551.

148. Armenia.–There was Armenia Major, the vast territory south of the Caucasus Mountains and between the Euxine and Caspian Seas; and Armenia Minor, a, small section on the west of Armenia Major, and east of Cappadocia. All these lands were subject to Alexander, then to the Syrian princes, and were made a Roman province under Trajan.

150. Solyma.–That is, Jerusalem.

155. Mighty king.–Nero, whose murder of his mother is notorious, and whose flight beyond the Euphrates and expected return as antichrist was a superstitious tradition long maintained.]

(106-120.)

Unknown, who shall some time dare loathsome guilt

Of matricide, and many other things,

Having confidence in his most wicked hands.

160 And many for the throne with blood

Rome's soil while he flees over Parthian land.

And out of Syria shall come Rome's foremost man,

Who having burned the temple of Solyma,

And having slaughtered many of the Jews,

165 Shall destruction on their great broad land.

And then too shall an earthquake overthrow

Both Salamis and Paphos, when dark water

Shall dash o'er Cyprus washed by many a wave.

But when from deep cleft of Italian land

170 Fire shall come flashing forth in the broad heaven,

And many cities burn and men destroy,

And much black ashes shall fill the great sky,

And small drops like red earth shall fall from heaven,

Then know the anger of the God of heaven,

175 For that they without reason shall destroy

The nation of the pious. And then strife

Awakened of war shall come to the West,

Shall also come the fugitive of Rome,

Bearing a great spear, having marched across

[162-165. This evidently refers to the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, and the subjugation of all Palestine by the Romans under Vespasian and Titus.

167. Salamis and Paphos.–Famous cities, one at the east and the other at the west end of Cyprus. “How often,” says Seneca (Epist. 91), “has this calamity (earthquake) laid Cyprus waste? How often has Paphos fallen into ruin?”

171-176. The great eruption of Vesuvius, which destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, A. D. 79, is construed by the Sibyl as a sign of God's anger against the Romans for the slaughter of the Jews.

178. Fugitive of Rome.–Nero, referred to in lines 154-159 above.]

Book 5

(13-27.)

And one whose mark is fifty shall be lord,

40 A dreadful serpent breathing grievous war,

Who sometime stretching forth his hands shall make

An end of his own race and stir all things,

Acting the athlete, driving chariots,

Putting to death and daring countless things;

45 And he shall cleave the mountain of two seas

And sprinkle it with gore; but out of sight

Shall also vanish the destructive man;

Then, making himself equal unto God,

Shall he return; but God will prove him naught.

50 And after him shall three kings be destroyed

By one another. Then a great destroyer

Of pious men shall come, whom seven times ten

Shall point out clearly. But from him a son,

Whom the first letter of three hundred proves,

55 Shall take the power. And after him shall be

A ruler, of the initial sign of four,

A life-destroyer. Then a reverend man

Of the number fifty. Next, succeeding him

Who has the first mark of the initial sign

60 Three hundred, shall a Celtic mountaineer,

Into the strife of battle pressing on,

[39. Fifty.–The letter N, here denoting Nero, and Nerva in line 58.

45. Mountain of two seas.–Isthmus of Corinth, which Nero attempted to open to the two adjoining bodies of water.

50. Three kings.–Galba, Otho, and Vitellius.

52. Seven times ten.–This number is denoted by the Greek {Greek O}, initial of the Greek form of the name of Vespasian ({Greek Ou?espasiano's}).

54. Three hundred.–Here denoting Titus.

56. Four.–The letter A, initial of Domitian.

60.Three hundred.–Here denoting Trajan, who was of Spanish origin, and so reckoned by the Sibyl as a “Celtic mountaineer,” not accurately, but in a loose, general way as a Western.]

(72-92.)

12 5 For there shall come a Persian on thy dale,

And like hail shall he all the land destroy,

And artful men, with blood and corpses. . . .

By sacred altars one of barbarous mind,

Strong, full of blood and raging senselessly,

130 With countless numbers rushing to destruction.

And then shalt thou, in cities very rich,

Be very weary. Falling on the earth

All Asia shall wail on account of gifts

Crowning her head with which she was by thee

135 Delighted. But, as he himself obtained

The Persian land by lot, he shall make war

And killing every man destroy all life,

So that there shall remain for wretched mortals

A third part. But with nimble leap shall he

140 Himself speed from the West, and all the land

Besiege and waste. But when he shall possess

The height of power and odious reverence,

He shall come, wishing to destroy the city

Even of the blessed. And a certain king

145 Sent forth from God against him shall destroy

All mighty kings and bravest men. And thus

Shall judgement by the Immortal come to men.

Alas, alas for thee, unhappy heart!

Why dost thou move me to declare these things,

150 The painful rule of Egypt over many?

Go to the East, to races of the Persians

Who lack in understanding, and show them

[125. A Persian.–The allusion is uncertain. According to the scholium found in a Paris codex, he is one who is to be associated with the coming of antichrist. Much in the description corresponds to what is said of Nero in lines 39-49 above.

144-147. A Messianic passage quoted by Lactantius, Div. Inst., vii, 18 6, 796].]

(114-129.)

And there shall be for Phrygia fearful wrath

Because of sorrow for which Rhea came,

Mother of Zeus, and there continued long.

The sea shall overthrow the Centaur race

190 And barbarous nation, and beneath the earth

Shall tear away the Lapith?an land.

The river of deep eddies and deep flow,

Peneus, shall destroy Thessalian land,

Snatching men from the earth. Eridanus

185 (Pretending once to bear the forms, of beasts).

Hellas thrice wretched shall the poets weep,

When one from Italy shall smite the neck

Of the isthmus, mighty king of mighty Rome,

A man made equal to God, whom, they say,

190 Zeus himself and the august Hera bore

He, courting by his voice all-musical

Applause for his sweet Songs, shall put to death

With his own wretched mother many men.

From Babylon shall flee the fearful lord

195 And shameless whom all mortals and best men

Abhor; for he slew many and laid hands

Upon the womb; against his wives he sinned

And of men stained with blood had he been formed.

[177. Rhea.–Comp. book iii, 165-182.

179. Centaur race.–Fabulous race in Thessaly, represented as half man and half horse.

181. Lapith?an land.–The mountainous parts of Thessaly, so called from a fabulous people, the Lapith?, who are said to have once dwelt there.

185. The Greek text is here corrupt, and the words in parentheses are conjectural.

187.One from Italy.–Another picture of Nero (comp. lines 39-49) who is here represented as the author of the Roman war which resulted in the overthrow of Jerusalem and the temple.]

(195-211.)

And a new nature in the warlike stars,

290 'so that the whole land of the Ethiops

Shall perish in the midst of fire and groans.

And weep thou, Corinth, the destruction sad

Which is ill thee; for when with pliant threads

The Fates three sisters, spinning shall aloft

295 Lead him who flees by guile against the voice

Of the isthmus, until all shall look at him

Who once cut out the rock with ductile brass,

He also shall destroy and smite thy land,

As it hath been appointed. For to him

300 God gave strength to accomplish that which could

No earlier of all the kings together.

And first with sickle cleaving off the roots

From three heads he shall give food in excess

To others, so that kings unclean shall eat

305 The flesh of parents. For unto all men

Slaughter and terrors are laid up in store

because of the great city and just people

Saved through all time, whom Providence held high.

O thou unstable one and ill-advised,

[294. Fates.–These, according to popular mythology, were three sisters, named Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, who are continually spinning out the destiny of mortals. Clotho, it was said, held the distaff, Lachesis spun out the thread of existence, and Atropos cut it off.

295. Him who sees.–The reference seems to be to Nero and his cleaving the isthmus (comp. lines 45 and 188). His return from the East as antichrist was a superstitious apprehension prevalent for some time after his death.

303. Three heads.–Comp. Dan. vii, 8, 24; 2 Esdras xi, 23; xii, 22. Hippolytus, de Christo et Antichristo, lii [G., 10, 772].

307. City … people.–Jerusalem and the Jews.

209-334. A prophetic curse against Rome as the greatest source of misery to men.]

(329-345.)

And the unwasting flames of the sun himself

Shall be no more, nor shall the brilliant light

Of the moon again be in the latest time,

When God shall bc the ruler. And dark gloom

470 Shall be o'er all the earth, and blinded men

And evil beasts and woe; that day shall be

A long time, so that men shall see that God

Himself is Lord, the overseer of all

In front of heaven. And then will he himself

475 Not pity hostile men, who sacrifice

Their herds of lambs and sheep and calves and goats

And bellowing golden-horned bulls, offering them

To lifeless Herm? and to gods of stone.

But let the law of wisdom be your guide

480 And the glory of the righteous; lest sometime

The imperishable God incensed destroy

Each race of men and shameless tribe of life,

It doth behoove them faithfully to love

The Father, the wise God who ever is.

485 In the last time, at the turning of the moon,

There shall be raging through the world a war

And carried on with cunning, and in guile.

And from the limits of the earth shall come

Fleeing and pondering sharp things in his mind,

[478. Herm?.–statues surmounted with ahead of Hermes, the god of arts and of traffic. They were numerous in Athens and Rome, and many specimens are to be seen in the museums of Europe.

480-484. Cited by Lactantius, de Ira Dei, xxiii [L., 7, 144].

488-490. Reference to Nero, here conceived as returning from his flight beyond the Euphrates (see book iv, 156) and embodying the traits of the vile king described in Dan. viii, 23-25. This passage is quoted by Lactantius, de Morte Persec., ii [L., 7, 197], and he says that some persons of his own time understood it of Nero, who was supposed to be still living in Nero distant region whither he had been secretly conveyed.]

(346-364.)

490 A matricidal man who every land

Shall overpower and over all things rule,

And see all things more wisely than all men;

And that for whose sake he himself was slain

Shall he seize forthwith. And he shall destroy

495 Many men and great tyrants and shall burn

All of them, as none other ever did,

And he shall raise up them that are afraid

For emulation's sake. And from the West

Much war shall come to men, and blood shall flow

500 Down hill till it becomes deep-eddying streams.

And in the plains of Macedonia

Shall wrath distil and give help from the West,

But to the king destruction. And a wind

Of winter then shall blow upon the earth,

505 And the plain be filled with evil war again.

For fire shall rain down from the heavenly plains

On mortals, and therewith blood, water, flash

Of lightning, murky darkness, night in heaven,

And waste in war and o'er the slaughter mist,

510 And these together shall destroy all kings

And noblest men. Thus shall be made to cease

Then the destruction pitiable of war.

And no more shall one fight with swords or iron

Or even darts, which things shall not again

515 Be lawful. But wise people shall have peace,

Who were left, having made proof of wickedness,

That they might at the last be filled with joy.

[493. That for which he perished, and which the returning Nero would again seize, was the sovereignty.

501-503. The exact import of these lines is quite unintelligible, except that by various concurring forces the Nero antichrist is to be destroyed.]

(365-385.)

Ye matricides, leave off your impudence

And evil-working boldness, who of old

520 provided lawlessly lewd couch with boys,

And placed as harlots maidens pure before

In brothels by assault and punishment

And by much-laboring indecency.

For in thee mother with her child did hold

525 Unlawful intercourse, and daughter was

With her own father wedded as a bride;

And in thee kings have their ill-fated mouth

Polluted, and in thee have wicked men

Found couch with cattle. Be in silence hushed,

530 Thou wicked city all-bewailed, possessed

Of revelry; for by thee virgin maids

Shall care no longer for the fire divine

Of sacred wood that fondly nourisheth;

Before thee was a much-loved house of old

535 Extinguished, when I saw the second house

Cast headlong down and overwhelmed with fire

By an unholy hand, house ever flourishing,

God's watchful temple, brought forth of his saints

And being always indestructible,

540 By the soul hoped for and the body itself.

For not without the rites of burial

Shall one praise God out of the unseen earth,

Nor did wise workman make a stone by them,

Nor had he fear of gold, cheat of the world

[518. Infanticides.–The Romans are thus addressed, as if they were conceived in the Sibyl's mind as so many Neros. Comp. line 490.

532. Fire divine.–This was kept burning in the temple of Vesta at Rome, and attended by six virgin priestesses known as Vestal virgins. The safety of the city was believed to depend on keeping this fire ever burning.

534.Loved house.–The temple in Jerusalem, laid waste first by the Chaldeans (2 Kings xxv, 8-11) and a second time by the Romans under Titus.]

(386-405)

545 And of souls, but the mighty Father, God

Of all things God-inspired, did he revere

With holy offerings and fair hecatombs.

But now an unseen and unholy king

With multitude great and with men renowned

。。。

[548. Unholy king.–The reference seems to be to Nero, under whom was begun the Jewish war which ended in the destruction of the temple. Comp. lines 187-209 above.

Book 8

(127-146.)

To rule with Ares. And when he has wrought

All these things, to the city afterwards

195 Shall he come. And three times three hundred

And eight and forty shalt thou make complete,

When, taking thee by force, an ill-starred fate

Shall come upon thee and complete thy name.

Ah me, I the thrice wretched, shall I see

200 Sometime that day to thee destructive, Rome,

But to all Latins most? It honors him

With counsels who goes, up on Trojan car

With hidden children from the Asian land,

Having a fiery soul. But when he shall

205 Cut through the isthmus looking wistfully,

Moving against all, passing o'er the sea,

Then shall dark blood pursue the mighty beast.

And a dog chased the lion which destroys

The shepherds. And then shall they take away

210 His scepter and to Hades he shall pass.

And unto Rhodes shall come an evil last,

But greatest, There shall also be for Thebes

An evil conquest afterwards, And Egypt

[193. To rule with Ares.–The matricidal fugitive of line 92, returning as antichrist. This whole passage is apocalyptic, and no exact conformity to history need be sought.

195. The number 948 is the numerical value of the Greek letters in the name Rome ({Greek r}=100, {Greek w}=800, {Greek m}=40, {Greek h}=8, = {Greek Rw'mh}). Nine hundred and forty-eight years after the founding of Rome extends to about 196 of our era, and the reign of Septimius Severus.

199. Wretched.–Comp. book v, 74, and the close of book vii.

203. From the Asian land.–Another allusion to Nero. His ascending the Trojan car is metaphorical of his supposed coming with war chariots from the east, and all the force and fury of Ares.

208-209. Comp. book xiv, 21, 22.

211, 222. Fragments of sentiments found in other books. Comp. iii, 453-455.]

Book 12

(41-61.)

And Egypt shall alone feed numerous tribes;

And the king himself beguiling secretly

Shall craftily destroy the virgin maid;

But her the citizens in tearful grief

85 Shall bury; and against the king they all

Holding wrath shall abuse him craftily.

While strong Rome blossoms the strong man shall perish.

And again there shall rule another lord

Of the number of twice ten; and then shall come

90 Unto the Sauromatians and to Thrace

And the Triballi, famed for hurling darts,

Wars and sad cares; and Roman Ares shall

Tear all in pieces. And a fearful sign

Shall there be when this man shall rule the land

95 Of the Italians and Pannonians;

And there shall be at the mid hour of day

Dark night around them and then from the heaven

A shower of stones; and thereupon the lord

And vigorous judge of the Italians

100 Shall go in Hades' halls by his own fate.

Again another fearful man shall come

And dreadful, numbering fifty; and from all

The cities many noblest citizens

Born to wealth he shall utterly destroy,

105 A dreadful serpent breathing grievous war,

Who sometime stretching forth his hands shall make

An end of his own race and stir all things,

Acting the athlete, driving chariots,

[89. Twice ten.–Represented by Kappa, initial of Claudius (Klaudios) Comp. book v, 36.

101-114. This description of Nero is nearly identical with that of book v, 39-49.]

(62-83.)

Putting to death and daring countless things;

110 And he shall cleave the mountain of two seas,

And sprinkle it with gore. And out of sight

Shall also vanish the destructive man;

Then making himself equal unto God

Shall he return, but God will prove him naught.

115 And while he rules there shall be peace profound

And not the fears of men; and from the ocean

Flowing, and cleaving by Ausonia,

Shall come untrodden water; and around

Looking with anxious care he will appoint

120 His very many contests for the people,

And he himself an actor will contend

With voice and cithara, and sing a song

Along with harp-string; later he will flee

And leave the royal power, and perishing

125 Illy will he repay the harm he wrought.

After him three shall rule and two of them

Shall have the number seventy by their names,

And in addition to these shall be one

Of the third letter; and one here, one there,

130 Shall perish by strong Ares' sturdy hands.

Then shall a mighty ruler of men come,

Destroyer of the pious, strong-minded man,

Spear-wielding Ares, whom seven times the tenth

Shall point out clearly; he shall overthrow

135 Ph?nicia and destroy Assyria.

A sword shall come upon the sacred land

Of Solyma even to the utmost bend

Of the Tiberian sea. Alas, alas,

Ph?nicia, O how much shalt thou endure,

140 Grief-laden with thy trophies tightly bound,

[126-131. Comp. book v, 50-53.]