Capitolo 63
And wide Ionia to his/her forced joke,
For the god the favoured his/her essay of discretion.
Fourth in the dynasty was the child of Cyrus,
It is fifth it was Mardus scandal of his/her earth,
It is ancient lineage. Him Artaphrenes,
Game of heart, inside his/her building it killed,
Helped by faithful conspirators, put for this.
And I earned the destiny for which I also asked persistently,
And oftentimeses conducted out an attractive innkeeper,
He/she anchors it never brought disaster as this
On the city. But my child is young
And unwise in his/her youth and heedeth not
The warnings of my mouth. You Brand this my friends,,
Been Born with my birth, coeval with mine the age--
Not all us king that held following rule
Has beaten, combined, such downfall as my child!
CHOIR
How then, Or King Darius? whitherward
Dost you thy warning direct? from this appointment
How us Persians goes again toward the hope?
GHOST OF DARIUS
Anymore attacking Greek earths,
Also the tho' our Median strength is double theirs--
For the earth same protects his/her inhabitants.
CHOIR
How meanest you? from what to be able defensive?
GHOST OF DARIUS
You waste from famine an innumerable too enemy.
CHOIR
But we will bring an innkeeper more specialized than enormous.
GHOST OF DARIUS
Because, e'en that manages, it sticks himself/herself/themselves camped in Hellas,
Won't win again never to house and weal!
CHOIR
How say'st you? doesn't want the whole Asian innkeeper
Footsteps again in Europe on the ford of Helle?
GHOST OF DARIUS
No--scarce a tithe of all those myriads,
If men can have trust in the oracles of Sky
When he sees the already beaten things,
I don't distort with true, but true without word false
If that that me trow is the truth, my child has gone away
A chosen back-watch of our innkeeper, in who
He has trust, now, with a casual trust!
They remains where the laves of Asopus the earth
With brooks that slightly they clearly bless Boeotia--
There is it destined for them to bear