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☞ 36. Too late the monarch will repent
Of not having put to death his adversary:
But he will come to consent to a much greater thing,
That of killing off all his blood.
Shortly before the Sun sets,

37. Battle is given a great people in doubt:
Ruined, the marine port makes no reply,
Bridge and sepulchre in two strange places.

38. The Sun and the Eagle will appear as victor,
The vanquished is reassured with a vain reply:
With hue and cry they will not cease arming,
Revenge, because of death peace made right on schedule.

☞ 39. By night the highest one^[1] strangled in bed
Because the blond elect had tarried too long.
The Empire enslaved by three in substitution,
Put to death with document and packet unread.

40. The false trumpet concealing madness
Will bear Byzantium a change of laws:
From Egypt there will go forth one who wants the withdrawal of
Edicts debasing the quality of coins.

41. City besieged, and assaulted by night,
Few escaped: conflict not far from the sea:
On the return of her son a woman fainting from joy,^[2]
Poison and letters hidden in the fold.

☞ 42. The tenth of the Calends of April of Gothic count
Revived again by wicked folk:
The fire put out, diabolic assembly
Searching for the bones of the Demon of Psellus.

1. Or “last one.”
2. Or “the whore overcome.”