第4巻 第19章

Greek Γερμανὸν δὲ ξύν τε Συμμάχῳ καὶ Δομνίκῳ μεταπεμψάμενος βασιλεὺς Σολόμωνι αὖθις ἅπαντα Λιβύης τὰ πράγματα ἐνεχείρισε, τρισκαιδέκατον ἔτος τὴν αὐτοκράτορα ἔχων ἀρχήν· στράτευμά τε αὐτῷ παρασχόμενος καὶ ἄρχοντας ἄλλους τε καὶ Ῥουφῖνον καὶ Λεόντιον, τοὺς Ζαύνα τοῦ Φαρεσμάνου, καὶ Ἰωάννην τὸν Σισινιόλου υἱόν.

Dewing And the emperor summoned Germanus together with Symmachus and Domnicus and again entrusted all Libya to Solomon, in the thirteenth year of his reign; and he provided him with an army and officers, among whom were Rufinus and Leontius, the sons of Zaunas the son of Pharesmanas, and John J., the son of Sisiniolus.

Greek Μαρτῖνος γὰρ καὶ Βαλεριανὸς ἤδη πρότερον ἐς Βυζάντιον μετάπεμπτοι ἦλθον.

Dewing For Martinus and Valerianus had already before this gone under summons to Byzantium.

Greek Σολόμων δὲ καταπλεύσας ἐς Καρχηδόνα καὶ τῆς Στότζα στάσεως ἀπαλλαγεὶς μετρίως τε ἐξηγεῖτο καὶ Λιβύην ἀσφαλῶς διεφύλασσε, διακοσμῶν τε τὸν στρατὸν καὶ εἴ τι μὲν ὕποπτον ἐν αὐτῷ εὕρισκεν, ἔς τε Βυζάντιον καὶ παρὰ Βελισάριον πέμπων, νέους δὲ στρατιώτας εἰς τὸν ἐκείνων ἀριθμὸν καταλέγων καὶ Βανδίλων τοὺς ἀπολελειμμένους καὶ οὐχ ἥκιστά γε αὐτῶν γυναῖκας ἁπάσας ὅλης ἐξοικίζων Λιβύης. πόλιν τε ἑκάστην περιέβαλε τείχει καὶ τοὺς νόμους ξὺν ἀκριβείᾳ φυλάξας πολλῇ τὴν πολιτείαν ὡς μάλιστα διεσώσατο.

Dewing And Solomon sailed to Carthage, and having rid himself of the sedition of Stotzas, he ruled with moderation and guarded Libya securely, setting the army in order, and sending to Byzantium and to Belisarius whatever suspicious elements he found in it, and enrolling new soldiers to equal their number, and removing those of the Vandals who were left and especially all their women from the whole of Libya. And he surrounded each city with a wall, and guarding the laws with great strictness, he restored the government completely.

Greek καὶ ἐγένετο Λιβύη ἐπ’ ἐκείνου χρημάτων τε προσόδῳ δυνατὴ καὶ τὰ ἄλλα εὐδαίμων.

Dewing And Libya became under his rule powerful as to its revenues and prosperous in other respects.

Greek Ἐπεὶ δὲ ἅπαντά οἱ ὡς ἄριστα διετέτακτο, ἐπί τε Ἰαύδαν καὶ τοὺς ἐν Αὐρασίῳ Μαυρουσίους αὖθις ἐστράτευε.

Dewing And when everything had been arranged by him in the best way possible, he again made an expedition against Iaudas and the Moors on Aurasium.

Greek καὶ πρῶτα μὲν Γόνθαριν, τῶν δορυφόρων τῶν αὐτοῦ ἕνα, ἄνδρα ἀγαθὸν τὰ πολέμια, ξὺν στρατεύματι ἔπεμψεν.

Dewing And first he sent forward Gontharis, one of his own body-guards and an able warrior, with an army.

Greek ὃς δὴ ἐς Ἀβίγαν ποταμὸν ἀφικόμενος ἐστρατοπεδεύσατο ἀμφὶ Βάγαϊν, πόλιν ἔρημον.

Dewing Now Gontharis came to the Abigas River and made camp near Bagaïs, a deserted city.

Greek ἐνταῦθά τε τοῖς πολεμίοις ἐς χεῖρας ἐλθὼν καὶ μάχῃ ἡσσηθεὶς ἔς τε τὸ χαράκωμα ἀποχωρήσας τῇ Μαυρουσίων προσεδρείᾳ ἐπιέζετο ἤδη.

Dewing And there he engaged with the enemy, but was defeated in battle, and retiring to his stockade was already being hard pressed by the siege of the Moors.

Greek ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς τῷ παντὶ στρατῷ ἀφικόμενος, ἐπειδὴ σταδίοις ἑξήκοντα· τοῦ στρατοπέδου ἀπεῖχεν οὗ Γόνθαρις ἡγεῖτο, χαράκωμά τε ποιησάμενος αὐτοῦ ἔμενε καὶ τὰ ξυμπεσόντα τοῖς ἀμφὶ Γόνθαριν ἅπαντα ἀκούσας μοῖράν τε αὐτοῖς τοῦ στρατοῦ ἔπεμψε καὶ θαρσοῦντας ἐκέλευε διαμάχεσθαι τοῖς πολεμίοις.

Dewing But afterwards Solomon himself arrived with his whole army, and when he was sixty stades away from the camp which Gontharis was commanding, he made a stockade and remained there; and hearing all that had befallen the force of Gontharis, he sent them a part of his army and bade them keep up the fight against the enemy with courage.

Greek οἱ δὲ Μαυρούσιοι καθυπέρτεροι ἐν τῇ ξυμβολῇ,

Dewing But the Moors, having gained the upper hand in the engagement, as I have said, did as follows.

Greek ὥσπερ ἐρρήθη, γενόμενοι ἐποίουν τάδε. Ἀβίγας ὁ ποταμὸς ῥεῖ μὲν ἐκ τοῦ Αὐρασίου, κατιὼν δὲ ἐς πεδίον ἀρδεύει τὴν γῆν οὕτως ὅπως ἂν βουλομένοις ᾖ τοῖς ταύτῃ ἀνθρώποις.

Dewing The Abigas River flows from Aurasium, and descending into a plain, waters the land just as the men there desire.

Greek περιάγουσι γὰρ τὸ ῥεῦμα τοῦτο οἱ ἐπιχώριοι ὅποι ποτὲ σφίσιν ἐς τὸ παραυτίκα ξυνοίσειν οἴονται, ἐπεὶ ἐν τῷδε τῷ πεδίῳ ἀπώρυγες συχναὶ τυγχάνουσιν οὖσαι, ἐς ἃς δὴ ὁ Ἀβίγας σχιζόμενός τε καὶ ἐς πάσας ἰὼν ὑπὸ γῆν φέρεται καὶ αὖθις ὑπὲρ γῆν διαφαίνεται,

Dewing For the natives conduct this stream to whatever place they think it will best serve them at the moment, for in this plain there are many channels, into which the Abigas is divided, and entering all of them, it passes under­ground, and reappears again above the ground and gathers its stream together.

Greek ξυνάγων τὸ ῥεῦμα. τοῦτό τε ἐπὶ πλεῖστον τοῦ πεδίου ξυμβαῖνον ἐν ἐξουσίᾳ τοῖς ταύτῃ ᾠκημένοις τίθεται εἶναι, ἐπιβύσασι χώματι τοὺς ῥωχμοὺς ἢ αὖθις αὐτοὺς ἀποκαλύψασι τοῖς ὕδασι τοῦ ποταμοῦ τοῦδε ὅ τι βούλοιντο χρῆσθαι.

Dewing This takes place over the greatest part of the plain and makes it possible for the inhabitants of the region, by stopping up the waterways with earth, or by again opening them, to make use of the waters of this river as they wish.

Greek τότε οὖν ἁπάσας οἱ Μαυρούσιοι τὰς ἐκείνῃ ἀπώρυγας ἀποφράξαντες ἀφιᾶσι τὸ ῥεῦμα ὅλον φέρεσθαι ἀμφὶ τὸ τῶν Ῥωμαίων στρατόπεδον.

Dewing So at that time the Moors shut off all the channels there and thus allowed the whole stream to flow about the camp of the Romans.

Greek ἀφ’ οὗ δὴ τέλμα βαθὺ γεγονὸς καὶ ἀπόρευτον ἐξέπληξέ τε αὐτοὺς ὅτι μάλιστα καὶ ἐς ἀπορίαν κατέστησε.

Dewing As a result of this, a deep, muddy marsh formed there through which it was impossible to go; this terrified them exceedingly and reduced them to a state of helplessness. When this was heard by Solomon, he came quickly.

Greek ταῦτα ἀκούσας Σολόμων κατὰ τάχος ᾔει. οἱ δὲ βάρβαροι δείσαντες ἀναχωροῦσιν ἐς τοῦ Αὐρασίου τὸν πρόποδα. καὶ ἐν χώρῳ ὃν Βάβωσιν καλοῦσι, στρατοπεδευσάμενοι ἔμενον. ἄρας τε Σολόμων τῷ παντὶ στρατῷ ἐνταῦθα ἧκε.

Dewing But the barbarians, becoming afraid, withdrew to the foot of Aurasium. And in a place which they call Babosis they made camp and remained there. So Solomon moved with his whole army and came to that place.

Greek καὶ τοῖς πολεμίοις ἐς χεῖρας ἐλθὼν κρατήσας τε παρὰ πολὺ αὐτῶν ἐς φυγὴν ἔτρεψε.

Dewing And upon engaging with the enemy, he defeated them decisively and turned them to flight.

Greek καὶ ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ οἱ Μαυρούσιοι μάχην μὲν ἐκ τοῦ ἀντιπάλου πρὸς Ῥωμαίους διενεγκεῖν ἀξύμφορον σφίσιν ᾤοντο εἶναι· οὐ γὰρ αὐτῶν περιέσεσθαι τῇ μάχῃ ἤλπιζον· ἐς δὲ τοῦ Αὐρασίου τὴν δυσχωρίαν ἐλπίδα εἶχον ἀπολέγοντας τῇ ταλαιπωρίᾳ Ῥωμαίους χρόνῳ ὀλίγῳ ἐνθένδε ἐξανίστασθαι ὥσπερ τὸ πρότερον.

Dewing Now after this the Moors did not think it advisable for them force fight a pitched battle with the Romans; for they did not hope to over them in this kind of contest; but they did have hope, based on the difficult character of the country around Aurasium, that the Romans would in a short time give up by reason of the sufferings they would have to endure and would withdraw from there, just as they formerly had done.

Greek οἱ μὲν οὖν πολλοὶ ἔς τε Μαυριτανοὺς καὶ ἐς τοὺς πρὸς μεσημβρίαν τοῦ Αὐρασίου βαρβάρους ᾤχοντο, Ἰαύδας δὲ ξὺν Μαυρουσίων δισμυρίοις ἐνταῦθα ἔμενεν. ἐτύγχανε δὲ φρούριον οἰκοδομησάμενος ἐν Αὐρασίῳ, Ζερβούλην ὄνομα. οὗ δὴ ἐσελθὼν σὺν πᾶσι Μαυρουσίοις ἡσύχαζε.

Dewing The most of them, therefore, went off to Mauretania and the barbarians to the south of Aurasium, but Iaudas with twenty thousand of the Moors remained there. And it happened that he had built a fortress on Aurasium, Zerboule by name. Into this he entered with all the Moors and remained quiet.

Greek Σολόμων δὲ χρόνον μὲν τρίβεσθαι τῇ πολιορκίᾳ ἥκιστα ἤθελε, μαθὼν δὲ τὰ ἀμφὶ πόλιν Ταμουγάδην πεδία σίτου ἀκμάζοντος ἔμπλεα εἶναι ἐς αὐτὰ ἐπῆγε τὸ στράτευμα καὶ ἐγκαθεζόμενος ἐδῄου τὴν γῆν. πυρπολήσας τε ἅπαντα ἐς Ζερβούλην τὸ φρούριον αὖθις ἀνέστρεψεν.

Dewing But Solomon was by no means willing that time should be wasted in the siege, and learning that the plains about the city of Tamougade were full of grain just becoming ripe, he led his army into them, and settling himself there, began to plunder the land. Then, after firing everything, he returned again to the fortress of Zerboule.

Greek Ἐν δὲ τῷ χρόνῳ τούτῳ ᾧ Ῥωμαῖοι ἐδῄουν τὴν γῆν, Ἰαύδας καταλιπὼν Μαυρουσίων τινάς, οὓς μάλιστα ᾤετο ἐς τοῦ φρουρίου τὴν φυλακὴν ἱκανοὺς ἔσεσθαι, αὐτὸς ἐς τὴν τοῦ Αὐρασίου ὑπερβολὴν ξὺν τῷ ἄλλῳ στρατῷ ἀνέβη, ὅπως μὴ πολιορκουμένους ἐνταῦθα τὰ ἐπιτήδεια σφᾶς ἐπιλίποι.

Dewing But during this time, while the Romans were plundering the land, Iaudas, leaving behind some of the Moors, about as many as he thought would be sufficient for the defence of the fortress, himself ascended to the summit of Aurasium with the rest of the army, not wishing to stand siege in the fort and have provisions fail his forces.

Greek χῶρόν τε εὑρὼν κρημνοῖς τε πάντοθεν ἀνεχόμενον καὶ πρὸς ἀποτόμων πετρῶν καλυπτόμενον,

Dewing And finding a high place with cliffs on all sides of it and concealed by perpendicular rocks, Toumar by name, he remained quietly there.

Greek Τοῦμαρ ὄνομα, ἐνταῦθα ἡσύχαζε. Ῥωμαῖοι δὲ Ζερβούλην τὸ φρούριον ἐς τρεῖς ἐπολιόρκουν ἡμέρας. καὶ τόξοις χρώμενοι, ἅτε οὐχ ὑψηλοῦ ὄντος τοῦ τείχους, πολλοὺς τῶν ἐν ταῖς ἐπάλξεσι βαρβάρων ἔβαλλον.

Dewing And the Romans besieged the fortress of Zerboule for three days. And using their bows, since the wall was not high, they hit many of the barbarians upon the parapets.

Greek τύχῃ δέ τινι ξυνέπεσεν ἅπαντας Μαυρουσίων τοὺς ἡγεμόνας τούτοις δὴ ἐντυχόντας τοῖς βέλεσι θνήσκειν.

Dewing And by some chance it happened that all the leaders of the Moors were hit by these missiles and died.

Greek ἐπεὶ δὲ ὅ τε τῶν τριῶν ἡμερῶν χρόνος ἐτρίβη καὶ νὺξ ἐπέλαβε, Ῥωμαῖοι μὲν οὐδὲν τοῦ θανάτου πέρι τῶν ἐν Μαυρουσίοις ἡγεμόνων πυθόμενοι διαλύειν ἐβουλεύοντο τὴν προσεδρείαν.

Dewing And when the three days' time had passed and night came on, the Romans, having learned nothing of the death of the leaders among the Moors, were planning to break up the siege.

Greek ἄμεινον γὰρ Σολόμωνι ἐφαίνετο ἐπί τε Ἰαύδαν καὶ Μαυρουσίων τὸ πλῆθος ἰέναι, οἰομένῳ, ἢν ἐκείνους πολιορκίᾳ ἑλεῖν δύνηται, ῥᾷόν τε καὶ ἀπονώτερον τοὺς ἐν Ζερβούλῃ βαρβάρους προσχωρήσειν σφίσιν.

Dewing For it seemed better to Solomon to go against Iaudas and the multitude of the Moors, thinking that, if he should be able to capture that force by siege, the barbarians in Zerboule would with less trouble and difficulty yield to the Romans.

Greek οἱ δὲ βάρβαροι οὐκέτι ἀντέχειν τῇ προσεδρείᾳ οἰόμενοι, ἐπεὶ αὐτοῖς ἅπαντες ἤδη οἱ ἡγεμόνες ἀνῄρηντο, φεύγειν τε κατὰ τάχος καὶ τὸ φρούριον ἀπολιπεῖν ἔγνωσαν.

Dewing But the barbarians, thinking that they could no longer hold out against the siege, since all their leaders had now been destroyed, decided to flee with all speed and abandon the fortress.

Greek αὐτίκα γοῦν ἅπαντες σιγῇ τε καὶ οὐδεμίαν τοῖς πολεμίοις αἴσθησιν παρεχόμενοι ἔφευγον, οἵ τε Ῥωμαῖοι ἐς τὴν ἀναχώρησιν ἅμα ἡμέρᾳ παρεσκευάζοντο.

Dewing Accordingly they fled immediately in silence and without allowing the enemy in any way to perceive it, and the Romans also at daybreak began to prepare for departure.

Greek καὶ ἐπειδὴ ἐν τῷ τείχει οὐδείς, καίπερ πολεμίων ἀναχωρούντων, ἐφαίνετο, ἐθαύμαζόν τε καὶ ἐς ἀλλήλους ἐπὶ πλεῖστον διηποροῦντο.

Dewing And since no one appeared on the wall, although the besieging army was withdrawing, they began to wonder and fell into the greatest perplexity among themselves.

Greek ξὺν ταύτῃ τε τῇ ἀμηχανίᾳ τὸ φρούριον περιιόντες ἀνακεκλιμένην τὴν πυλίδα εὑρίσκουσιν ὅθεν δὴ οἱ Μαυρούσιοι ᾤχοντο φεύγοντες.

Dewing And in this state of uncertainty they went around the fortress and found the gate open from which the Moors had departed in flight.

Greek ἔς τε τὸ φρούριον ἐσελθόντες ἐν ἁρπαγῇ ἅπαντα ἐποιήσαντο, διώκειν μέντοι ἤκιστα τοὺς πολεμίους διενοοῦντο, ἄνδρας κούφως τε ἐσταλμένους μένους καὶ τῶν ἐκείνῃ χωρίων ἐμπείρους.

Dewing And entering the fortress they treated everything as plunder, but they had no thought of pursuing the enemy, for they had set out with light equipment and were familiar with the country round about.

Greek καὶ ἐπειδὴ ἅπαντα ἐληίσαντο, φύλακας τοῦ φρουρίου καταστησάμενοι πεζῇ ἅπαντες ἐχώρουν πρόσω.

Dewing And when they had plundered everything, they set guards over the fortress, and all moved forward on foot.