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29. When the terrestrial and aquatic fish
Will be put upon the beach by a strong wave,
Its form strange, attractive and frightful,
By sea the enemies very soon at the walls.

30. Because of the stormy seas the strange ship
Will approach an unknown port,
Notwithstanding the signals from the branch of palm,
After death, pillage: good advice given late.

31. The wars in Gaul will last for many years,
Beyond the course of the monarch of Castulo:^[1]
Uncertain victory will crown three great ones,
The Eagle, Cock, Moon, Lion, Sun engraved.^[2]

32. The great empire will soon be transferred
To a little place which will very soon come to grow:
A very lowly place in a petty country
In the middle of which he will come to lay down his sceptre.

33. Near a great bridge of a spacious plain,
The great Lion with Imperial forces,
He will cause a felling outside the austere city,
Because of fear the gates will be opened to him.

34. The bird of prey flying to the left side,^[3]
Before the conflict preparation made by the French:
One will take it for good, another for ambiguous or inauspicious,
The weak party will hold it as a good omen.

35. ☞ The young lion will overcome the old one
On the field of battle in single combat:
He will put out his eyes in a cage of gold:
Two fleets^[4] one, then to die a cruel death.

1. A major city of Roman Spain. Probably used here as synecdoche for Spain. See Commentary.
2. Or possibly “Sun in Leo.”
3. Or “to the window.”
4. Or, according to the popular interpretation, “two fractures,” hence “two wounds.”