When he was a boy, he’d read books about great military campaigns, and visited museums and had looked with patriotic pride at the paintings of famous cavalry charges, last stands, and glorious victories. It had come as rather a shock, when he later began to participate in some of these, to find that the painters had unaccountably left out the intestines. Perhaps they just weren’t very good at them.
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Wars, horrendous wars,
and the Tiber foaming with tides of blood, I see it all![Bella, horrida bella,
Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno.]Virgil (70-19 BC) Roman poet [b. Publius Vergilius Maro; also Vergil]
The Aeneid [Ænē̆is], Book 6, l. 86ff (6.86-87) [The Sybil] (29-19 BC) [tr. Fagles (2006)]
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(Source (Latin)). Alternate translations:Wars, horrid wars I see,
And Tyber swell'd with blood.
[tr. Ogilby (1649)]Wars, horrid wars, I view -- a field of blood,
And Tiber rolling with a purple flood.
[tr. Dryden (1697)]Wars, horrid wars, I foresee, and Tiber foaming with a deluge of blood.
[tr. Davidson/Buckley (1854)]War, dreadful war, and Tiber flood
I see incarnadined with blood.
[tr. Conington (1866)]Dreadful war,
And Tiber frothed with blood, I see from far.
[tr. Cranch (1872), ll. 111-12]Wars, grim wars I discern, and Tiber afoam with streams of blood.
[tr. Mackail (1885)]Lo, war, war, dreadful war!
And Tiber bearing plenteous blood upon his foaming back.
[tr. Morris (1900)]Woes in store,
Wars, savage wars, I see, and Tiber foam with gore.
[tr. Taylor (1907), st. 13, ll. 116-17]War, red war!
And Tiber stained with bloody foam I see.
[tr. Williams (1910)]Wars, grim wars I see, and Tiber foaming with streams of blood.
[tr. Fairclough (1916)]War, I see,
Terrible war, and the river Tiber foaming
With streams of blood.
[tr. Humphries (1951)]Wars, dreadful wars
I see, and Tiber foaming with torrents of human blood.
[tr. Day-Lewis (1952)]I see wars, horrid wars, the Tiber foaming
with much blood.
[tr. Mandelbaum (1971), ll. 122-23]Wars, vicious wars
I see ahead, and Tiber foaming blood.
[tr. Fitzgerald (1981), ll. 132-33]I see wars, deadly wars, I see the Thybris foaming with torrents of blood.
[tr. West (1990)]War, fierce war,
I see: and the Tiber foaming with much blood.
[tr. Kline (2002)]War, I see horrible war, and the Tiber
Foaming with blood.
[tr. Lombardo (2005)]I see brutal wars and bloody torrents frothing in the Tiber.
[tr. Bartsch (2021)]
