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Century I 135

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How many times will you be taken, solar city, Changing the barbarian and vain laws: Your evil approaches: You will be more tributary, The great “Adria” will re-cover? your veins.

From the Orient will come the Punic heart To vex “Adria” and the heirs of Romulus, Accompanied by the Libyan fleet, Malta trembling? and the neighboring isles empty. The serpent conveyed in the iron cage

Where the seven children of the King are taken:

Their progenitors will come out from their underworld below, Before dying seeing of their offspring death and cries.

The motion of sense, heart, feet and hands Will be in accord. Naples, Leon, Sicily: Swords, fires, waters, then the noble Romans Submerged, killed, dead because of a weak brain.

In a short time a false, frail brute will lead, Elevated quickly from low to high:

Then in an instant disloyal and labile,

He who will have the government of Verona.

The exiles because of anger and intestine hatred

Will bring a great conspiracy to bear against the King: Secretly they will place enemies as a threat,

And his own old ones against them sedition.

From the slavish people songs, chants and requests, For Princes and Lords captives in the prisons: In the future such by headless idiots Will be received as divine utterances.