维吉尔：牧歌（中英对照）(7)

A sister led to the Aonian hills,
And, in a mortal’s honour, straight uprose
The choir of Phoebus: How that priest of song,
The shepherd Linus, —all his hair with flowers
And bitter parsley shining, —spake to him.
“Take—lo! the Muses give it thee—this pipe.
她们也曾将它赐予那位阿斯克拉老人：
他奏笛高歌，直到那毅然挺立的花楸
都随之走下山头。此笛在手，你亦可
一展歌喉，歌唱埃俄利亚森林的起源，
直到阿波罗都愿为它送上至高的礼赞。”
就像这样，他一刻不停地歌唱，唱到
杜里奇的航船如何遭受斯库拉的侵扰，
这恶名昭彰的海妖又如何在大洋深处
纵海狗把惊恐的水手们撕咬，也唱到
忒柔斯如何化身为鸟，菲洛墨拉——
这可怜的女子——曾备下了何等宴席、
Once that Ascraean’s old: to this would he
Sing till the sturdy mountain-ash came down.
Sing thou on this, whence sprang AEolia’s grove,
Till in no wood Apollo glory more.”
So on and on he sang: How Nisus, famed
In story, troubled the Dulichian ships;
And in the deep seas bid her sea-dogs rend
The trembling sailors. Tereus’ tale he told,
How he was changed: what banquet Philomel,
What present, decked for him: and how she flew
何等佳礼，继而又如何飞向遥遥蛮荒，