第6巻 第17章

Greek Ἐνταῦθά μοι ἰδεῖν θέαμα ξυνηνέχθη τοιόνδε. ἡνίκα ὁ ξὺν τῷ Ἰωάννῃ στρατὸς ἐς Πικηνοὺς ἦλθε, γέγονεν, ὡς τὸ εἰκός, ταραχή τις πολλὴ τοῖς ταύτῃ ἀνθρώποις.

Dewing In that place it was my fortune to see the following sight. When the army of John came into Picenum, the people of that region, as was natural, were thrown into great confusion.

Greek τῶν τε γυναικῶν αἱ μὲν ἔφευγον ἐξαπιναίως ὅπη αὐτῶν ἑκάστῃ δυνατὰ ἐγεγόνει, αἱ δὲ καταλαμβανόμεναι ἤγοντο κόσμῳ οὐδενὶ πρὸς τῶν ἐντυχόντων.

Dewing And among the women, some took hurriedly to flight, wherever each one found it possible, while others were captured and led away in a disorderly manner by those who chanced upon them.

Greek ἐν τούτῳ οὖν τῷ χωρίῳ μία τις γυνὴ ἀρτίως τεκοῦσα καὶ τὸ παιδίον ἀπολιποῦσα ἐν τοῖς σπαργάνοις ἔτυχε ἐπὶ γῆς κείμενον, καὶ εἴτε φευγουσα εἴτε ὑφ’ ὁτουοῦν καταληφθεῖσα ἐνταῦθα ἐπανήκειν οὐκέτι ἔσχεν· ἀφανισθῆναι γὰρ αὐτῇ δηλονότι ἢ ἐξ ἀνθρώπων ἢ ἐξ Ἰταλίας ξυνέπεσε.

Dewing Now a certain woman of this city had, as it happened, just given birth to a child, and had abandoned the infant, leaving it in its swaddling clothes lying upon the ground; and whether she sought safety in flight or was captured by someone or other, she did not succeed in getting back again to that place; for assuredly it fell out that she disappeared from the world or at least from Italy.

Greek τὸ μὲν οὖν παιδίον ἐν ταύτῃ δὴ τῇ ἐρημίᾳ γεγονὸς ἔκλαιεν. αἲξ δὲ αὐτὸ μία ἰδοῦσα ᾠκτίζετό τε καὶ πλησίον ἀφικομένη ʽἔναγχος γὰρ τεκοῦσα καὶ αὐτὴ ἔτυχἐ τὸν τιτθὸν ἐδίδου καὶ τὸ παιδίον ξὺν ἐπιμελείᾳ ἐφύλασσε,

Dewing So the infant, being thus abandoned, began to cry. But a lone she-goat, seeing it, felt pity and came near, and gave the infant her udder (for she too, as it happened, had recently brought forth young) and guarded it carefully, lest a dog or wild beast should injure it.

Greek μὴ κύων ἤ τι θηρίον αὐτὸ λυμάνηται. χρόνου τε τῇ ταραχῇ τριβέντος συχνοῦ τούτου δὴ τοῦ τιτθοῦ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον μεταλαχεῖν τὸ παιδίον ξυνέβη.

Dewing And since the confusion was long continued, it came about that the infant partook of this food for a very long time.

Greek γνωσθὲν δὲ Πικηνοῖς ὕστερον ὅτι δὴ ὁ βασιλέως στρατὸς ἐπὶ Γότθων μὲν τῷ πονηρῷ ἐνταῦθα ἥκοι, Ῥωμαῖοι δὲ οὐ πείσονται οὐδὲν πρὸς αὐτοῦ ἄχαρι,

Dewing But later, when it became known to the people of Picenum that the emperor's army had come there to injure the Goths, but that the Romans would suffer no harm from it, they all returned immediately to their homes.

Greek ἐπανῆλθον εὐθὺς οἴκαδε ἅπαντες. ἔν τε Οὐρβισαλίᾳ ξὺν τοῖς ἀνδράσιν αἱ γυναῖκες γενόμεναι, ὅσαι γένος Ῥωμαῖαι ἦσαν, ἐπειδὴ τὸ παιδίον ἐν τοῖς σπαργάνοις περιὸν εἶδον, τὸ γεγονὸς ξυμβάλλειν οὐδαμῆ ἔχουσαι ἐν θαύματι μεγάλῳ ὅτι δὴ βιῴη πεποίηνται.

Dewing And when such of the women as were Romans by birth came to Urvisalia with the men, and saw the infant still alive in its swaddling clothes, they were utterly unable to comprehend what had happened and considered it very wonderful that the infant was living.

Greek καὶ τὸν τιτθὸν ἑκάστη ἐδίδου αἳ δὴ πρὸς τοῦτο ἐπιτηδείως ἔχουσαι ἔτυχον. ἀλλ’ οὔτε τὸ παιδίον ἀνθρώπειον γάλα ἔτι προσίετο καὶ ἡ αἲξ αὐτοῦ μεθίεσθαι ἥκιστα ἤθελεν, ἀλλὰ μηκωμένη ἀμφὶ τὸ παιδίον ἐνδελεχέστατα, δεινὰ τοῖς παροῦσιν ἐδόκει ποιεῖσθαι, ὅτι τῷ παιδίῳ ἄγχιστα αἱ γυναῖκες ἰοῦσαι οὕτω δὴ αὐτὸ ἐνοχλοῖεν, τό τε ξύμπαν εἰπεῖν μεταποιεῖσθαι ὡς οἰκείου τοῦ βρέφους ἠξίου.

Dewing And each of them who chanced to be at that time able to do so offered her breast. But neither would the infant now have anything to do with human milk, nor was the goat at all willing to let it go, but as it kept bleating unceasingly about the infant, it seemed to those present to be feeling the greatest resentment that the women came near it and disturbed it as they did, and, to put all in a word, she insisted upon claiming the babe as her own.

Greek καὶ ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ αἵ τε γυναῖκες τὸ παιδίον οὐκέτι ἠνώχλουν καὶ ἡ αἲξ ἀδεέστερον ἔτρεφέ τε καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ἐπιμελομένη ἐφύλαττε. διὸ δὴ Αἴγισθον οἱ ἐπιχώριοι τοῦτο δὴ τὸ παιδίον ἐκάλουν.

Dewing Consequently the women no longer disturbed the infant, and the goat continued to nourish it free from fear and to guard it with every care. Wherefore the inhabitants of the place appropriately called this infant Aegisthus.⁠

Greek καὶ ἡνίκα μοι ἐπιδημεῖν ἐνταῦθα ξυνέβη, ἐπίδειξιν τοῦ παραλόγου ποιούμενοι παρά τε τὸ παιδίον ἦγον καὶ αὐτὸ ἐξεπίτηδες,

Dewing And when I happened to be sojourning in that place, by way of making a display of the strange sight they took me near the infant and purposely hurt it so that it might cry out.

Greek ἵνα βοᾷ, ἐλύπουν. καὶ τὸ μὲν τοῖς λυποῦσιν ἀχθόμενον ἔκλαεν, ἀκούσασα δὲ ἡ αἲξ ʽδιεστήκει γὰρ αὐτοῦ ὅσον λίθου βολὴν’ δρόμῳ τε καὶ μηκηθμῷ ἐχομένη πολλῷ παρ’ αὐτὸ ᾔει, ὕπερθέν τε αὐτοῦ ἐλθοῦσα ἔστη, ὡς μή τις αὐτὸ λυπεῖν τὸ λοιπὸν δύνηται. τὰ μὲν οὖν ἀμφὶ τῷ Αἰγίσθῳ τούτῳ τοιαῦτά ἐστι.

Dewing And the infant, annoyed by those hurting it, began to cry; whereupon the goat, which was standing about a stone's throw away from it, hearing the cry, came running and bleating loudly to its side, and took her stand over it, so that no one might be able to hurt it again. Such then is the story of this Aegisthus.

Greek Βελισάριος δὲ διὰ τῶν ταύτῃ ὀρῶν ἐχώρει. πλήθει γὰρ παρὰ πολὺ ἐλασσούμενος τῶν ἐναντίων οὐκ ἤθελεν αὐτοῖς ἐκ τοῦ εὐθέος εἰς χεῖρας ἰέναι, ἐπεὶ καὶ θανατῶντας τοῖς ξυμπεσοῦσι τοὺς βαρβάρους ἑώρα·

Dewing But Belisarius was advancing through the mountains in this region. For seeing that he was greatly inferior to his opponents in numbers, he did not wish to engage in an open battle with them, since he could see that the barbarians were actually paralyzed by their previous defeats;

Greek ᾤετο δὲ αὐτούς, ἐπειδὰν τάχιστα πύθωνται πανταχόθεν σφίσι πολεμίων ἐπιέναι στρατόν, ἀλκῆς ἂν οὐδεμιᾶς μνησθῆναι, ἀλλ’ αὐτίκα δὴ μάλα ἐς φυγὴν τρέψεσθαι. καὶ ἔτυχέ γε τῆς ἀληθοῦς δόξης, οὐκ ἔξω τοῦ ἐσομένου ὑποτοπήσας.

Dewing and he thought that, as soon as they learned that a hostile army was coming upon them from all sides, they would not once think of resistance, but would without the least hesitation turn to flight. And indeed he arrived at a correct opinion regarding the situation, and his suppositions were not at variance with what the future was to bring forth.

Greek ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ἐν τοῖς ὄρεσιν ἐγένοντο, ὅσον Ἀριμίνου ἀπέχειν ἡμέρας ὁδόν, Γότθοις τισὶν ὀλίγοις κατά τινα χρείαν ὁδῷ πορευομένοις ἐνέτυχον.

Dewing For when they had reached a point in the mountains where they were about one day's journey distant from Ariminum, they happened upon a small company of Goths who were travelling on some necessary errand.

Greek οἳ δὴ ἐκ τοῦ ἀπροσδοκήτου πολεμίων περιπεπτωκότες στρατῷ ἐκτρέπεσθαι τῆς ὁδοῦ οὐδαμῆ ἴσχυσαν, ἕως παρὰ τῶν ἔμπροσθεν ἰόντων βαλλόμενοι οἱ μὲν αὐτοῦ ἔπεσον, οἱ δὲ τραυματίαι γεγενημένοι ἐπί τινας τῶν ἐκείνῃ σκοπέλων ἀναδραμόντες διέλαθον.

Dewing And these Goths, falling in unexpectedly with a hostile army, were quite unable to get away from the road before they were attacked by the missiles of those who marched in the van, and some fell on the spot, while others, after receiving wounds, succeeded in hiding themselves by scrambling up some of the high cliffs close by.

Greek ὅθεν σκοπούμενοι τὸν Ῥωμαίων στρατὸν ἐς πάσας δυσχωρίας ξυρρέοντας, πολλῷ πλείονας τοῦ ἀληθοῦς μέτρου ὑπετόπαζον εἶναι.

Dewing From that position they watched the Roman army collecting over all the rough ground, and they supposed them to be many more than they really were.

Greek ἔνθα δὴ καὶ τὰ Βελισαρίου σημεῖα ἰδόντες, αὐτὸν ἐξηγεῖσθαι ταύτῃ τῇ στρατιᾷ ἔγνωσαν. νύξ τε ἐπέλαβε, καὶ αὐτοῦ μὲν Ῥωμαῖοι ηὐλίσαντο, τῶν δὲ Γότθων οἱ τραυματίαι λάθρα ἐπὶ τὸ τοῦ Οὐιττίγιδος στρατόπεδον ᾔεσαν.

Dewing And seeing the standards of Belisarius there also, they realized that he was leading this army in person. Then night came on and the Romans bivouacked where they were, while the wounded Goths went stealthily to the camp of Vittigis.

Greek οὗ δὴ ἀμφὶ μέσην ἡμέραν γενόμενοι τάς τε πληγὰς ἐπεδείκνυον καὶ Βελισάριον σφίσι ξὺν στρατῷ κρείσσονι ἢ ἀριθμεῖσθαι ὅσον οὔπω παρέσεσθαι ἰσχυρίζοντο.

Dewing And reaching it about midday, they displayed their wounds and declared that Belisarius would be upon them almost at once with an army past numbering.

Greek οἱ δὲ παρεσκευάζοντο μὲν ὡς ἐς μάχην πρὸς βορρᾶν ἄνεμον Ἀριμίνου πόλεως τετραμμένοι ʽταύτῃ γὰρ ᾤοντο τοὺς πολεμίους ἀφίξεσθαἰ, ἀεί τε ἐς τοῦ ὄρους τὰ ἄκρα ἔβλεπον ἅπαντες.

Dewing Then the Goths began to prepare for battle to the north of the city of Ariminum, for they thought that the enemy would come from that direction, and they were all constantly looking toward the heights of the mountain.

Greek ἐπεὶ δέ, νυκτὸς σφίσιν ἐπιγενομένης, καταθέμενοι τὰ ὅπλα ἡσύχαζον, πυρὰ πολλὰ ἐς τὰ πρὸς ἕω τῆς πόλεως ὅσον ἀπὸ σταδίων ἑξήκοντα εἶδον, ἅπερ τὸ ξὺν Μαρτίνῳ στράτευμα ἔκαιεν, ἐς δέος τε ἀμήχανον ἦλθον·

Dewing But when, as night came upon them, they had laid down their weapons and were resting, they saw many camp-fires to the east of the city, about sixty stades away — these were the fires which the troops of Martinus were burning — and they fell into a state of helpless fear;

Greek κυκλωθήσεσθαι γὰρ πρὸς τῶν πολεμίων ἅμα ἡμέρᾳ ὑπώπτευον. ταύτην μὲν οὖν τὴν νύκτα ξὺν δέει τοιούτῳ ηὐλίσαντο, τῇ δὲ ἐπιγενομένῃ ἡμέρᾳ ἅμα ἡλίῳ ἀνίσχοντι στόλον νηῶν ἐπὶ σφᾶς ἰόντα ὁρῶσιν ἐξαίσιον οἷον· ἔς τε ἀφασίαν ἐμπεπτωκότες ἐς φυγὴν ὥρμηντο.

Dewing for they suspected that they would be surrounded by the enemy at daybreak. So for that night they bivouacked in such a state of fear; but on the succeeding day at sunrise they saw a fleet of ships in overwhelming numbers bearing down upon them, and being plunged into speechless terror, they made a rush to flee.

Greek ξυσκευαζόμενοί τε κατὰ τάχος τοσούτῳ θορύβῳ τε καὶ κραυγῇ εἴχοντο ὥστε οὔτε τῶν παραγγελλομένων κατήκουον οὔτε ἄλλο τι ἐν νῷ ἐποιοῦντο ἢ ὅπως ἂν αὐτὸς ἕκαστος πρῶτός τε ἀπαλλάσσοιτο τοῦ στρατοπέδου καὶ Ῥαβέννης τοῦ περιβόλου ἐντὸς γένοιτο.

Dewing And while they were packing up their luggage as quickly as they could, there arose so much confusion and shouting among them that they neither paid heed to the commands given nor did they think of anything else than how each man for himself could get away first from the camp and place himself inside the fortifications of Ravenna.

Greek καὶ εἰ μέν τι ἰσχύος ἢ θάρσους περιεῖναι τοῖς πολιορκουμένοις τετύχηκε, πλείστους τε ἂν τῶν πολεμίων ἐπεξελθόντες αὐτοῦ ἔκτειναν καὶ ξύμπας ἐνταῦθα ἂν ὁ πόλεμος ἐτελεύτησε.

Dewing And if the besieged had only had some strength or daring left in them, they could have killed great numbers of the enemy on the spot by making a sally from the city, and the whole war would have ended there.

Greek νῦν δὲ τοῦτο ἐκώλυσεν ὀρρωδία τε σφίσι μεγάλη τοῖς φθάσασιν ἐπιγενομένη καὶ ἀσθένεια τῶν ἀναγκαίων τῇ ἀπορίᾳ πολλοῖς ξυμπεσοῦσα. οἱ μὲν οὖν βάρβαροι θορύβου ὑπερβολῇ αὐτοῦ λειπόμενοι τῶν χρημάτων τινὰ δρόμῳ πολλῷ τὴν ἐπὶ Ῥάβενναν ἔθεον.

Dewing But, as it was, this was prevented by the great fear which had taken possession of them because of their past experiences, and by the weakness which had come upon many owing to the lack of provisions. So the barbarians, leaving there some of their possessions in the excess of their confusion, began to run as fast as they could go on the road to Ravenna.