第7巻 第20章

Greek Βέσσας τε τὸν σῖτον ἔτι μᾶλλον ἀπεμπολῶν ἐπλούτει, πρυτανευούσης αὐτῷ τὰς τιμὰς τῆς τῶν δεομένων ἀνάγκης. καὶ ὅλος εἰς μέριμναν τὴν περὶ ταῦτα ἐσπουδακὼς οὔτε φυλακῆς τοῦ περιβόλου οὔτε ἄλλου ὁτουοῦν ἀσφαλείας πέρι ἐπεμελεῖτο, ἀλλὰ ἀναπεπτωκέναι μὲν τῶν στρατιωτῶν τοῖς γε βουλομένοις ἐξῆν, φυλακτήριον δὲ ὀλίγων τινῶν ἐν τοῖς τείχεσιν ἦν, καὶ τοῦτο δὲ ἀπημελημένον ὡς μάλιστα.

Dewing Meanwhile Bessas continued to grow more wealthy than ever by retailing his grain, since his prices were fixed by the necessity of those who wanted it. And since he was entirely wrapped up in his concern for this traffic, he neither paid heed to the defence of the walls nor concerned himself with any other measures for security whatsoever, but any of the soldiers who so wished were allowed to neglect their duties; and meanwhile there was only an insignificant garrison on the walls, and even this received very little attention.

Greek οἷς γὰρ ἀεὶ τὴν φυλακὴν ἐπικεῖσθαι ξυνέβαινε, πολλὴ ἐξουσία τοῦ καθεύδειν ἐγίνετο, ἐπεὶ οὐδεὶς αὐτοῖς ἐφειστήκει, ὅστις ἂν καὶ λόγον τινὰ τοῦ τοιούτου ποιοῖτο· οὐδὲ περιιόντες τινὲς κύκλῳ τῶν περιβόλων, ᾗπερ εἰώθει, διερευνᾶσθαι τοὺς φύλακας ὅ τί ποτε ποιοῦσιν ἠξίουν, οὐ μὴν οὐδέ τις τῶν οἰκητόρων αὐτοῖς ξυμφυλάσσειν ἠδύνατο.

Dewing For those who chanced from day to day to be assigned to guard duty were freely permitted to special, since no one was put in command of them who might possibly take some notice of such an act; nor did any officers consent to go the rounds of the fortifications, as had been customary, and inspect the guards to see what they were doing, and furthermore not one of the citizens was able to assist them in keeping guard;

Greek ὀλίγοι τε γὰρ κομιδῆ ἐνταῦθα, ὥσπερ μοι ἐρρήθη, ἐλείποντο καὶ αὐτοὶ τῷ λιμῷ ὑπερφυῶς κεκακωμένοι.

Dewing for an exceedingly small number, as I have said, were left In the city and these were wasted to the last degree by the famine.

Greek Τέσσαρες οὖν Ἴσαυροι, ἀμφὶ πύλην Ἀσιναρίαν φυλακὴν ἔχοντες, τηρήσαντες τῆς νυκτὸς τὸν καιρὸν ἐν ᾦ τοῖς μὲν αὐτῶν ἐχομένοις καθεύδειν ἐπέβαλλεν, αὐτοῖς δὲ ἡ φυλακὴ τοῦ ἐκείνῃ τείχους ἐπέκειτο, κάλως τε ἐκ τῶν ἐπάλξεων ἀναρτήσαντες ἄχρι ἐς τὸ ἔδαφος ἐξικνουμένους, καὶ τούτων χερσὶν ἀμφοτέραις λαβόμενοι ἔξω τοῦ περιβόλου ἐγένοντο καὶ παρὰ Τουτίλαν ἀφικόμενοι δέξασθαι τῇ πόλει αὐτόν τε ὡμολόγουν καὶ τὸν Γότθων στρατόν· δυνατοὶ γὰρ εἶναι τοῦτο ποιεῖν ἰσχυρίζοντο οὐδενὶ πόνῳ.

Dewing Thus it came about that four Isaurians who were keeping guard by the Asinarian Gate did as follows: having waited carefully for that part of the night during which it always fell to the lot of the soldiers next them to sleep while the guarding of that portion of the wall devolved upon them, they fastened ropes to the battlement long enough to reach down to the ground, and laying hold of these with both hands got outside the fortifications; then they went before Totila and agreed to receive him and the Gothic army into the city; for, as they declared, they were able to do this without any trouble.

Greek καὶ ὃς χάριτας σφίσιν ἁδρὰς ἕξειν ὁμολογήσας, ἤνπερ ἐπιτελῆ ταῦτα ποιήσωσι, κυρίους τε αὐτοὺς καταστήσεσθαι χρημάτων μεγάλων, δύο τῶν ἑπομένων ξὺν αὐτοῖς ἔπεμψε κατασκεψομένους τὸν χῶρον ὅθεν οἱ ἄνθρωποι Γότθοις ἔφασκον ἐς τὴν πόλιν ἐσιτητὰ εἶναι.

Dewing And Totila promised that he would be exceedingly grateful to them if they made good these promises and that he would put them in possession of great sums of money; he then sent with them two of his men to look over the place from which these men claimed that the Goths could effect an entrance into the city.

Greek οἵπερ ἐπειδὴ παρὰ τὸ τεῖχος ἀφίκοντο, τῶν καλωδίων λαβόμενοι ἀνέβαινον ἐς τὰς ἐπάλξεις, οὐδενὸς ἐνταῦθα ἢ φθεγγομένου ἢ τῶν ποιουμένων αἴσθησιν ἔχοντος.

Dewing So this party came up beside the wall and, laying hold of the ropes, ascended to the battlement, where not a man uttered a sound or observed what was going on.

Greek ἐπειδή τε ἐνταῦθα ἐγένοντο, τοῖς βαρβάροις οἱ Ἴσαυροι πάντα ἐδείκνυον, ὡς ἀνιέναι μὲν βουλομένοις οὐδὲν ἂν ἐμπόδιον εἴη, ἀνελθοῦσι δὲ πολλὴ ἂν ἐξουσία γένοιτο σφίσιν, οὐδενὸς τὸ παράπαν ἀντιστατοῦντος, ταῦτά τε αὐτοὺς ἀπαγγέλλειν Τουτίλᾳ κελεύσαντες ἀπεπέμψαντο.

Dewing So when they reached the top, the Isaurians shewed the barbarians everything, namely that those who wished to ascend would meet with no obstacle, and that after they had come up they would have complete freedom of action, meeting as they would with not the least resistance; then, after bidding them carry this report to Totila, they sent them away.

Greek Ἅπερ ἐπεὶ ὁ Τουτίλας ἤκουσεν, ἥσθη μέν πως τῇ ἀγγελίᾳ, ὑποψίᾳ δὲ καὶ ὣς ἐς τοὺς Ἰσαύρους ἐχόμενος οὐ λίαν αὐτοῖς πιστεύειν ἠξίου.

Dewing Now when Totila heard this report, he was, in a way, pleased at the intelligence, but, notwithstanding this, he felt a suspicion as regards the Isaurians and was not inclined to place very much confidence in them.

Greek ἡμέραις τε οὐ πολλαῖς ὕστερον αὖθις οἱ ἄνθρωποι παρ’ αὐτὸν ἧκον, ἐπὶ τὴν πρᾶξιν παρακαλοῦντες. καὶ ὃς ἑτέρους δύο ξὺν αὐτοῖς ἔπεμψεν, ἐφ’ ᾧ καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐς τὸ ἀκριβὲς ἅπαντα διερευνησάμενοι ἀπαγγείλωσιν.

Dewing Not many days later these men came to him again, urging him to undertake the enterprise. Totila thereupon sent two other men with them, with instructions that they too should make a thorough investigation of the whole situation and bring back a report.

Greek οἱ δὲ ἐς αὐτὸν ἐπανήκοντες ἅπαντα ὁμοίως τοῖς προτέροις ἤγγελλον. ἐν τούτῳ δὲ Ῥωμαῖοι στρατιῶται πολλοὶ ἐπὶ κατασκοπῇ στελλόμενοι τῆς πόλεως οὐ πολλῷ ἄποθεν Γότθοις δέκα ὁδῷ ἰοῦσιν ἐνέτυχον, οὓς δὴ ἑλόντες παρὰ τὸν Βέσσαν εὐθὺς ἄγουσι.

Dewing And these men, upon returning to him, made a report in all respects like that of those previously sent. But during this time a large force of Roman soldiers, who were out on a reconnoitering expedition, charged upon ten Goths walking along a road not far from the city, and they took them prisoners and straightway brought them before Bessas.

Greek καὶ ὁ μὲν ἀνεπυνθάνετο τούτων δὴ τῶν βαρβάρων ὅ τί ποτε ὁ Τουτίλας διανοοῖτο, οἱ δὲ Γότθοι ἐν ἐλπίδι ἔφασαν εἶναι τῶν τινας σφίσιν Ἰσαύρων ἐνδώσειν τὴν πόλιν· ἤδη γὰρ ἔκπυστος ὁ λόγος ἐς τῶν βαρβάρων πολλοὺς ἐγεγόνει.

Dewing And he enquired of these barbarians what Totila's purpose really was; and the Goths said that he was in hopes that some of the Isaurians would deliver the city to him: for the story had already become known to many of the barbarians.

Greek ἀλλὰ καὶ ταῦτα Βέσσας τε καὶ Κόνων ἀκούσαντες ἔν τε πολλῇ ὀλιγωρίᾳ ἔσχον καὶ αὐτῶν ἐντροπὴν οὐδεμίαν πεποίηντο. καὶ τρίτον οἱ Ἴσαυροι Τουτίλᾳ ἐς ὄψιν ἐλθόντες ἐς τὸ ἔργον τὸν ἄνδρα ἐνῆγον.

Dewing But even when Bessas and Conon heard this, they treated the matter with great unconcern and took no heed of the report. And a third time the Isaurians came into the presence of Totila and tried to induce the man to do the deed.

Greek ὁ δὲ ἄλλους τε ξὺν αὐτοῖς ἔπεμψε καὶ τῶν αὐτῷ κατὰ γένος προσηκόντων τινά, οἵπερ ἐς αὐτὸν ἐπανήκοντες καὶ τὸν πάντα λόγον ἀγγείλαντες ἐς τὴν πρᾶξιν ἐπέρρωσαν.

Dewing So he sent with them a number of men and amongst them one related to him by blood, and they, upon returning to him, reported the whole situation and encouraged him to proceed.

Greek Τουτίλας δέ, ἐπειδὴ τάχιστα νὺξ ἐγεγόνει, ἅπαν ἡσυχῆ ἐξοπλίσας τὸ στράτευμα ἐπῆγεν ἀμφὶ πύλην Ἀσιναρίαν. καὶ τέσσαρας τῶν ἐν Γότθοις ἀνδρίας τε καὶ ἰσχύος πέρι εὖ ἡκόντων ξὺν τοῖς Ἰσαύροις διὰ τῶν βρόχων ἀναβαίνειν ἐς τὰς ἐπάλξεις ἐκέλευεν, ἐς ἐκεῖνον δηλονότι τῆς νυκτὸς τὸν καιρὸν ἐς ὃν τούτοις δὴ τοῖς Ἰσαύροις ἡ φυλακὴ τοῦ ταύτῃ τείχους ὕπνον ἐκ περιτροπῆς τῶν ἄλλων αἱρουμένων ἐπέβαλεν.

Dewing Totila, then, as soon as night came on, put his whole force under arms in silence and led them up near the Asinarian Gate. And he commanded four men who were conspicuous among the Goths for their bravery and strength to climb up the ropes with the Isaurians to the battlements, during that part of the night, of course, in which the guarding of that portion of the wall fell to the Isaurians while the others were taking their turn at sleeping.

Greek οἵπερ, ἐπειδὴ ἐντὸς τοῦ περιβόλου ἐγένοντο, καταβαίνουσι μὲν ἐς πύλας τὰς Ἀσιναρίας, οὐδενὸς σφίσιν ἀντιστατοῦντος, καὶ τό τε ξύλον πελέκεσι διαφθείρουσιν ᾧπερ ἐνέρσει τοίχου ἑκατέρου ἐναρμοσθέντι τὰς πύλας ἐπιζευγνύναι εἰώθεσαν, τά τε σιδήρια ξύμπαντα οἷς δὴ τὰς κλεῖς ἀεὶ οἱ φύλακες ἐμβαλλόμενοι ἔκλειόν τε τὰς πύλας καὶ κατὰ τὴν χρείαν ἀνέῳγον.

Dewing And when these men got inside the fortifications, they descended to the Asinarian Gate without meeting any opposition; there they shattered with axes both the wooden beam with which the Romans customarily made the gates fast by fitting it into recesses in the wall on either side, and also all the ironwork into which the guards always inserted their keys to shut the gates or open them according to the need of the moment.

Greek οὕτω δὲ τὰς πύλας ἀναπετάσαντες, ᾗπερ ἐβούλοντο, τῇ πόλει Τουτίλαν τε καὶ τὸν Γότθων στρατὸν οὐδενὶ πόνῳ ἐδέξαντο. Τουτίλας δὲ αὐτοὺς ἐνταῦθα ἐς ἕνα χῶρον ξυναγαγὼν σκεδάννυσθαι οὐδαμῆ εἴασεν· ἔδεισε γὰρ μή τις ἐνέδρα πρὸς τῶν πολεμίων σφίσι ξυμβαίνῃ ταραχῆς δέ,

Dewing Then they swung the gates open, just as they wished to do, and without any trouble received Totila and the Gothic army into the city. But Totila collected his men there in one place and would not allow them to scatter at all, for he feared that they would fall into some ambush set by the enemy.

Greek ὡς τὸ εἰκός, τῇ πόλει καὶ θορύβου ἐπιπεσόντος οἱ μὲν πλεῖστοι τῶν Ῥωμαίων στρατιωτῶν διὰ πύλης ἑτέρας ξὺν τοῖς ἄρχουσιν ἔφευγον, ὥς πη ἑκάστῳ εὐπετὲς γέγονεν, ὀλίγοι δέ τινες ξὺν Ῥωμαίοις τοῖς ἄλλοις ἐς τὰ ἱερὰ καταφεύγουσι.

Dewing And tumult and confusion, as was natural, fell upon the city, and the most of the Roman soldiers were fleeing with their commanders through another gate, each one taking whatever course he found easy to follow, while only a few with the rest of the Romans were taking refuge in the sanctuaries.

Greek τῶν δὲ πατρικίων Δέκιος καὶ Βασίλειος ξὺν ἑτέροις τισὶν ʽἵπποι γὰρ σφίσι παρόντες ἔτυχον’ ξὺν τῷ Βέσσα φυγεῖν ἴσχυσαν.

Dewing Among the patricians Decius and Basilius, in company with a few others (for horses happened to be at hand for them) succeeded in escaping with Bessas.

Greek Μάξιμος δὲ καὶ Ὀλύβριος καὶ Ὀρέστης καί τινες ἄλλοι ἐς τὸν Πέτρου τοῦ ἀποστόλου νεὼν ἔφυγον. τοῦ μέντοι δήμου πεντακοσίους ἄνδρας ἀνὰ πᾶσαν τὴν πόλιν ἀπολελεῖφθαι ξυνέπεσεν, οἵπερ ἐς τὰ ἱερὰ κατέφυγον μόλις.

Dewing But Maximus, , Orestes, and some others fled to the church of the Apostle Peter.⁠ Among the common people, however, it so fell out that only five hundred men had been left throughout the whole city, and these with difficulty found refuge in the sanctuaries.

Greek τῶν γὰρ ἄλλων ἁπάντων οἱ μὲν ἀπιόντες ἤδη πρότερον ἐς ἑτέρας ᾤχοντο χώρας, οἱ δὲ τῷ λιμῷ διεφθάρησαν, ὥσπερ μοι ἔμπροσθεν εἴρηται. πολλοὶ μὲν οὖν Τουτίλᾳ νύκτωρ ἤγγελλον ὅτι δὴ Βέσσας τε καὶ οἱ πολέμιοι φεύγουσιν. ὁ δὲ χαρίεντα τὸν λόγον αὐτοὺς εἰρηκέναι εἰπὼν οὐκ εἴα διώκειν.

Dewing For all the rest of the population were gone, some having departed to other lands and some having been carried off by the famine, as I have stated above. Now many persons during that night kept reporting to Totila that both Bessas and the enemy were fleeing. But he, saying the report they had given was a pleasing one, would not permit a pursuit.

Greek τί γὰρ ἂν ἥδιον ἀνθρώπῳ γένοιτο, ἔφη, πολεμίων φευγόντων;

Dewing "For what could be sweeter for a mina," he said, "than a fleeing enemy?"

Greek Ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἡμέρα τε ἦν ἤδη καὶ οὐδεμία ἔτι ἐνέδρας τινὸς ὑποψία ἐλέλειπτο, Τουτίλας μὲν ἐς τὸν Πέτρου νεὼν τοῦ ἀποστόλου εὐξόμενος ᾔει, Γότθοι δὲ τοὺς παραπεπτωκότας διέφθειρον.

Dewing When it was already day and there was now no suspicion left of any ambush, Totila, for his part, went to the church of the Apostle Peter to pray, but the Goths began to slay those who fell in their way.

Greek ἀπέθανόν τε τούτῳ τῷ τρόπῳ τῶν μὲν στρατιωτῶν ἓξ καὶ εἴκοσι, τοῦ δὲ δήμου ἑξήκοντα. ἐπεὶ δὲ ὁ Τουτίλας ἀφίκετο ἐς τὸ ἱερόν, Πελάγιος αὐτῷ ἐς ὄψιν ἦλθε τὰ Χριστιανῶν λόγια ἐν ταῖς χερσὶ φέρων, παντί τε τρόπῳ τὴν ἱκεσίαν προτεινόμενος “Φείδου τῶν σῶν, ὦ δέσποτα” εἶπε.

Dewing And in this manner there perished among the soldiers twenty‑six, and among the people sixty. And when Totila had come into the sanctuary, Pelagius came before him carrying the Christian scriptures in his hand, and, making supplication in every manner possible, said "Spare thine own, O Master."

Greek καὶ ὃς ἐπιτωθάζων τε καὶ ἐνδιαθρυπτόμενος ἔφη “Νῦν με, ὦ Πελάγιε, ἱκετεύσων ἐλήλυθας.” “Ὅτε με” ὁ Πελάγιος ἀπεκρίνατο “δοῦλον σὸν ὁ θεὸς εἶναι πεποίηκεν.

Dewing And Totila, mocking him with a haughty air of indifference, said "Now at last, Pelagius, you have come to make yourself a suppliant before me." "Yes" replied Pelagius, "at a time when God has made me your slave.

Greek ἀλλὰ δούλων τῶν σῶν τὸ λοιπόν, ὦ δέσποτα, φείδου.” ταύτην ὁ Τουτίλας τὴν ἱκεσίαν δεξάμενος ἀπεῖπε Γότθοις μηδένα τὸ λοιπὸν ἀποκτιννύναι τῶν πάντων Ῥωμαίων, ἀλλὰ τῶν χρημάτων αὐτῷ μὲν τὰ τιμιώτατα ἐξελεῖν, τὰ δὲ ἄλλα σφίσιν αὐτοῖς κατ’ ἐξουσίαν ληΐζεσθαι.

Dewing Nay, spare your slaves, O Master, from now on." And Totila received this supplication with favour and forbade the Goths thereafter to kill any Roman at all, but he permitted them, while setting aside for him the most valuable of the property, to have unrestricted authority to plunder all the rest for themselves.

Greek Πολλὰ μὲν οὖν ἐν ταῖς πατρικίων οἰκίαις εὗρε, πάντων δὲ μάλιστα οὗπερ ὁ Βέσσας κατέλυε. τὰς γὰρ ἀνοσίας, ὥς γε δεδήλωται, τοῦ σίτου τιμὰς ὁ κακοδαίμων Τουτίλᾳ ἤθροιζεν.

Dewing Now he found much of value in the houses of patricians, but most of all in the house where Bessas had lodged. For that ill‑starred wretch had been only collecting for Totila the outrageous sums which, as set forth above, he had charged for the grain.

Greek οὕτω τε περιέστη τοῖς τε ἄλλοις Ῥωμαίοις καὶ τοῖς ἐκ τῆς συγκλήτου βουλῆς καὶ οὐχ ἥκιστα Ῥουστικιανῇ, τῇ Βοετίου μὲν γαμετῇ γενομένῃ, παιδὶ δὲ Συμμάχου, καὶ τὴν οὐσίαν ἀεὶ τοῖς δεομένοις προϊεμένῃ, δούλων τε καὶ ἀγροίκων ἀμπεχομένοις ἱμάτια, πρὸς τῶν πολεμίων ἄρτον ἢ ἄλλο τι τῶν ἀναγκαίων αἰτουμένοις βιοῦν.

Dewing And thus the Romans in general, and particularly the members of the senate, found themselves reduced to such straits that they clothed themselves in the garments of slaves and rustics, and lived by begging bread or any other food from their enemies; a very notable example of this change of fortune being that of Rusticiana, the daughter of Symmachus, who had been wife of Boethius, a woman who was always lavishing her wealth upon the needy.

Greek ἔς τε τὰς οἰκίας περιιόντες καὶ τὰς θύρας ἐς ἀεὶ κόπτοντες τροφὴν διδόναι σφίσιν ἐδέοντο, οὐ φέροντος αὐτοῖς αἰσχύνην τοῦ ἔργου.

Dewing Indeed these wretches went about to all the houses and kept knocking at the doors and begging that they give them food, feeling no shame in doing so.

Greek Καὶ Γότθοι μὲν Ῥουστικιανὴν κτείνειν ἐν σπουδῇ ἐποιοῦντο, ἐπικαλοῦντες ὅτι δὴ χρήματα προϊεμένη τοῖς τοῦ Ῥωμαίων στρατοῦ ἄρχουσι τὰς Θευδερίχου εἰκόνας διαφθείρειε, τοὺς φόνους ἀμυνομένη Συμμάχου τε τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ Βοετίου τοῦ ξυνοικήσαντος.

Dewing Now the Goths, on their part, were eager to put Rusticiana to death, bringing against her the charge that after bribing the commanders of the Roman army, she had destroyed the statues of Theoderic, her motive in so doing having been to avenge the murder not only of her father Symmachus, but also of her husband Boethius.

Greek Τουτίλας δὲ οὐδὲν ἄχαρι παθεῖν αὐτὴν ξυνεχώρησεν, ἀλλ’ αὐτήν τε καὶ τὰς ἄλλας ἁπάσας ὕβρεως ἐκτὸς διεφύλαξε, καίπερ Γότθων ἐς κοίτην ὡς μάλιστα ἐφιεμένων αὐταῖς ξυνελθεῖν.

Dewing But Totila would not permit her to suffer any harm, but he guarded both her and all the other women safe from insult, although the Goths were extremely eager to have intercourse with them.

Greek διόπερ αὐτῶν οὐδεμιᾷ ἐς τὸ σῶμα ὑβρίσθαι ξυνέβη οὔτε ἀνδρὶ ξυνοικούσῃ οὔτε παρθένῳ ἢ χήρᾳ οὔσῃ, μέγα τε κλέος ἐπὶ σωφροσύνῃ ἐκ τούτου τοῦ ἔργου Τουτίλας ἔσχε.

Dewing Consequently not one of them had the ill fortune to suffer personal insult, whether married, unwed, or widow, and Totila won great renown for moderation from this course.