卷三（一）　卷三提要、不唱的旧题与命运的十二份（上）

Manilius begins this Third Book as he did the Second, reckoning up and slighting the several Subjects which have imploy'd other Poets, and declaring his Design to be new and difficult: Then he proceeds to shew, 1. That the Twelve Signs of the Zodiack are the chief Disposers, and principal Governours of Fortunes. 2. That there are Twelve Lots belonging to these Twelve Signs. 3. He names and describes these Lots: The first is Fortune: The Second Warfare and Travelling: The Third, Civil Employments: The Fourth, Pleadings, and all the concerns of the Bar: The Fifth, Marriage Acquaintance, Guests:

曼尼利乌斯开始这第三卷，就像开始第二卷那样，先历数并轻视别的诗人所从事的种种题材，宣称自己的计划新颖而艰难：然后着手说明：一、黄道十二星座是命运的首要分配者与主要主管者；二、有十二份属于这十二个星座；三、他列出这些份的名称并加以描述：第一份是福运；第二份是征战与远行；第三份是公务；第四份是诉讼及法庭的一切事务；第五份是婚姻、相识、宾客：

The Sixth, Plenty, Wealth, and the means of preserving it. The Seventh, Dangers: The Eighth, Nobility, Honour, Reputation: The Ninth, Children, Education. The Tenth, Manners, Institution, Family. The Eleventh, state of Health, Physick: The Twelfth, Wishes, and the ends of them. 4. He teaches how to suit these Lots, Labours, or Athla to the several Signs, when the Birth belongs either to Day, or Night. 5. He proposeth Rules how to find the Horoscope. 6. Refuting the Method prescrib'd by the Chaldaeans. 7.

第六份是丰足、财富与保有财富的手段；第七份是危难；第八份是门第、荣誉、名声；第九份是子女与教养；第十份是品行、规矩与家室；第十一份是健康状况与医药；第十二份是愿望及其结果。四、他教人在生时属昼或属夜时，怎样把这些份——即「劳作」或「阿特拉」——配给各个星座；五、他提出求上升点的法则；六、驳斥迦勒底人所定的方法；七、

And shewing how to find the different lengths of Days and Nights, together with the several Risings and Settings of the Signs in order to find the Horoscope. 8. He resumes the Dispute against the Chaldaeans, and subjoins an Account of the several lengths of Days and Nights, in the three different Positions of the Sphere, Direct, Oblique, and Parallel. 9. He proposes another way to find the time of the Signs Rising and Setting. 10. He particularly Discourses of the Days Encrease from Capricorn to Cancer. 11. He shews what are the proper Years.

并说明怎样求出昼夜的不同长短，以及各星座的升起与沉没，以便求出上升点；八、他重拾对迦勒底人的辩驳，并附述天球在正、斜、平行三种不同位置下昼夜的种种长短；九、他提出求星座升落时间的另一种方法；十、他专门论述从摩羯到巨蟹白昼的增长；十一、他说明各星座所属的年、

Months, Days, and Hours of the Signs, and Confutes the Opinion of some Astrologers concerning them. 12. He sings how many Years belong to each Sign, and station. 13. And Concludes the Book with an Account of the Tropick Signs. I am not to Answer for the Astronomy it is enough if I have made the Poet speak intelligible English.

月、日与时辰，并驳斥某些星占家对此的意见；十二、他歌唱每个星座与每个位置给予多少年；十三、以论回归星座结束本卷。天文学上的事我不负责：只要我让诗人说出了明白易懂的英语，就够了。

WHilst I new ways attempt my groveling Name / To raise from Earth, and wing my Flight for Fame; / Thro' Woods untrodden whilst I take my way, / Ye Muses lead; for I extend your Sway / To larger Bounds, and make the World obey.

当我尝试新的道路，要把我匍匐在地的名字从地上升起，振翅飞向声名；当我穿过无人走过的树林，缪斯们啊，请你们引路；因为我把你们的统辖扩展到更广的疆界，使世界服从。

No Heaven's besieg'd, no Thunder thrown from far / Intombs the Giants, and concludes the War: / No fierce Achilles tells brave Hector's Spoil, / Nor Priam bears the Hero to his Pile.

这里没有被围攻的天界，没有从远处掷出的雷霆埋葬巨人、结束战争；没有凶猛的阿喀琉斯述说从勇敢的赫克托耳身上剥下的战利品，也没有普里阿摩斯把这位英雄抬上火葬堆。

No barbarous Maid betrays her Father's trust, / Nor tears her Brother to secure her Lust.

没有野蛮的少女背叛父亲的信任，撕碎自己的兄弟以成全她的情欲。

No Bulls breath Fire, no Dragons guard the Prize. / Nor from the poysnous seed Arm'd Harvests rise: / No Youth returning here renews the Old, / Nor treacherous Presents carry Flame in Gold.

没有公牛喷火，没有巨龙看守奖品，也没有从毒种里长出披甲的庄稼：这里没有归来的青年使老人返老还童，也没有阴险的礼物在黄金里携带火焰。

Nor will I sing the Babes Medea bore, / Got by much Guilt, but ah! destroy'd by more.

我也不唱美狄亚所生的孩子：他们因许多罪孽而生，可是啊！又被更多的罪孽毁掉。

The Theban Siege, the highest Pride of Fame, / Nor how the Town by Thunder sav'd from Flame / Lost whilst it conquer'd; nor how Spartans fought / Round old Messana, shall enlarge my thought.

底比斯之围，那名声最高的骄傲；那座城怎样被雷霆从火焰中救出，却在得胜之时失去；斯巴达人怎样围着古老的墨萨那作战——这些都不会扩展我的思绪。

No Sons and Brothers shall be joyn'd in one, / Nor Mother bear a Granchild in a Son; / No Murder'd Babes shall feast their injur'd Sire, / Nor Days break off, and frighted Suns retire.

这里没有儿子与兄弟合为一人，也没有母亲在儿子身上生下孙儿；没有被杀的婴孩成为受辱的父亲的筵席，也没有白昼中断、受惊的太阳退回。

None shall defy the Sea, the Floods enslave, / Sail o're the Mountains, and walk o're the Wave: / No Asian Kings. And thee, O mighty Rome, / Thy Arms, thy Conquests, and thy World o'recome / Thy Laws, thy Wars, thy Leagues my Verse refuse, / Those claim the leisure of a greater Muse.

没有人藐视大海、奴役洪流，在群山之上航行，在波浪之上行走：没有亚细亚的国王。还有你，伟大的罗马啊，你的武力、你的征服、你所征服的世界，你的法律、你的战争、你的盟约，我的诗都推辞了，那些要留给一位更伟大的缪斯从容歌唱。

Smooth Seas the Artless Sailer safely tries, / And Flowers undress'd in fruitful Gardens rise; / He works securely, who in Gold designs, / When e'en the rude unpolisht Metal Shines; / On specious Subjects common Wits compose, / For where the Matter takes, the Fancy flows;

平静的海上，不懂技艺的水手也能安然试航；不经修整的花朵也会在肥沃的园中开放；用黄金作设计的人工作起来稳妥，因为连未经琢磨的粗糙金属也会发光；平庸的才子们在动人的题目上写作，因为题材一讨人喜欢，想象就会流畅；

And every vulgar Author writes with ease, / Secure of Credit, where the Themes can please.

每一个凡俗的作者都写得轻松，只要题目讨人喜欢，信誉就有了保障。

This way some take to Fame: Thro' Words unknown, / And things abstruse my Muse goes boldly on, / Observes all Interchange of Times, compares / The fatal turns, and views the Leagues of Stars, / Things so remote, so intermixt, and wrought / With Parts in Parts; they are too fine for thought.

有些人走这条路去求名：而我的缪斯大胆地穿过陌生的词语与深奥的事物，观察时间的一切交替，比较命运的种种转折，审视星辰的盟约：这些事物如此遥远，如此交错，一部分套着一部分地织在一起；它们精细得思想都难以把握。

To know them is too much, but to explain / How great! to bind in Verse shews more than Man.

认识它们已经太难，而要解说它们，何其伟大！把它们缚进诗里，显出的就不止是凡人的能力。

Then come, who e're thou art that bring'st a Mind / To know high Truth, and patient Thoughts to find; / Hear solid Reason, and go on to gain / True serious Knowledge, but neglect the vain: / No Kings at Aulis sworn, no tales of Troy / With Priam's tears, or Helen's fatal Joy, / Nor hope sweet Verse, and curious turns to find, / I'll leave thy Passions, and instruct thy Mind:

那么来吧，不论你是谁，只要你带来一颗愿认识崇高真理的心，和肯耐心寻求的思想；请听坚实的道理，前进去获得真正严肃的知识，而把虚浮的东西丢开：这里没有在奥利斯立誓的国王，没有特洛伊的故事、普里阿摩斯的眼泪、海伦致命的欢乐，也别指望找到甜美的诗句和精巧的妙语，我不打动你的情感，只教导你的心智：

And tho' some Words of foreign Stamp appear, / Seem harsh, untun'd, uneasie to thy Ear; / This is the Subject's not the Writer's fault, / Some things are stiff, and will not yield to thought; / I must be plain: And if our Art hath found / Expressions proper, it neglects the Sound.

纵然有些带着外国印记的词语出现，在你耳中显得生硬、不和谐、不顺耳，那是题材的过错，不是作者的；有些事物是僵硬的，不肯屈从于思想；我必须说得明白：如果我们的技艺找到了恰当的说法，它就不顾声音的好坏。

Thy Mind well purg'd from vainer Cares compose, / For now my Muse is eager to disclose, / The nicest Secrets; which observ'd, impart / Fate's Laws, and prove the surest Guides to Art.

把你的心从较为虚浮的忧虑中涤清，安定下来；因为我的缪斯现在急于揭示最精微的秘密；留心观察它们，就能传达命运的法则，证明是通向这门技艺最可靠的向导。

When Nature order'd this vast Frame to rise, / Nature, the Guardian of these Mysteries, / And scatter'd Lucid Bodies o'er the Skies; / When she the Concave, whence directly fall / Streight Lines of Influence round the solid Ball, / Had fill'd with Stars; and made Earth, Water, Air, / And Fire, each other mutually repair;

当自然下令让这宏大的框架升起——自然，这些奥秘的守护者——把发光的天体撒满天空；当她用群星充满那穹隆，影响的直线从那里径直落向四周坚实的球体；并使土、水、气、火彼此相互补足；

That Concord might these differing parts controul, / And Leagues of mutual Aid support the whole; / That nothing which the Skies embrace might be / From Heaven's supreme Command and Guidance free, / On Man the chiefest Object of her Cares / Long time she thought, then hung his Fates on Stars;

好让和谐管束这些不同的部分，让相互援助的盟约支撑整体；好让天所拥抱的一切都不能脱离天至高的命令与指引；对于人，她所关怀的首要对象，她思量了很久，然后把他的命运悬在星座上；

Those Stars, which plac'd i'th' Heart of Heaven, display / The brightest Beams, and share the greatest sway; / Which keep a constant Course, and now restrain / The Planets Power, now yield to them again; / Thus sometimes ruling, sometimes rul'd, create / The strange and various Intercourse of Fate. / To these her Powers wise Nature's Laws dispense

那些星座位于天的中心，放射最明亮的光芒，分享最大的统辖；它们保持恒常的路程，时而抑制行星的力量，时而又向它们让步；这样时而统治、时而被统治，造成命运奇特而多样的往来。睿智的自然把她的法则所赋的力量分给它们，

The twelve Lots of the twelve Signs

［十二星座的十二份］

Submitting all things to their Influence: / But then as Emperours their Realms divide, / And every Province hath its proper Guide, / So 'tis in Signs; they have not equal Shares / Of common Power, each Fortune claims its Stars.

使万物服从它们的影响：但正如皇帝们分割疆土，每个行省都有它专属的长官，星座也是如此；它们并不平分共同的权力，每一种命运各自认领它的星座。

Our Studies, Poverty, Wealth, Joy and Grief, / With all the other Accidents of Life / She parcels out; to proper Stars confines / The Lots in number equal to the Signs.

我们的学业、贫穷、财富、欢乐与悲伤，以及人生其余的一切遭遇，她都一份一份地分配出去；把这些与星座数目相等的份，限定给各自的星座。

These grac'd with proper Names and Place contain / The various Fortunes incident to Man, / Yet so contriv'd, that they are always found / In the same Order, in the fatal Round.

这些份被冠以专属的名称与位置，包含人所遭遇的种种命运，而又安排得在命运的圆周上总是依同样的次序出现。

Yet are not Lots thus fixt to Signs to lie / Possessing the same Station in the Sky; / And from one place directing down to Earth / An equal Influence work on every Birth; / But still the Time of every Birth confines / These Lots to Seats, and makes them change their Signs, / That every Lot from every Sign may flow, / And vary the Nativity below.

然而这些份并不是固定在星座上、在天上占据同一个位置，从一处向地上导下影响，对每一次出生作用都相同；而是每次出生的时刻把这些份限定在各自的座位上，使它们更换星座，好让每一份都可能从每一个星座流出，使下界的命盘各不相同。

But lest Confusion too much Change produce, / And make the Art too intricate for Vse; / 'Tis order'd thus:— / That when the Birth's first Minute hath decreed / The first Lot's Station, then the rest succeed / In following Signs; each Fortune takes its Seat / In proper Order, till the Round's compleat:

但为了不让过多的变化造成混乱，使这门技艺繁难得无法使用，规定如此——当出生的最初一刻定下了第一份的位置，其余各份就在后随的星座里相继；每一种命运依适当的次序就座，直到一圈完满：

Take these short Rules till flowing Verse dilate, / Unfolding all the Mysteries of Fate.

先记住这些简短的法则，等流畅的诗句再来展开，揭示命运的一切奥秘。

These Lots which thus decreed to Signs contain / The various Fortunes incident to Man; / As Planets joyn with a malignant Ray, / Or Kind; or as the rolling Skies convey / To different Hinges, so the Fortune spreads, / And well or ill the whole Design succeeds:

这些份就这样被判给星座，包含人所遭遇的种种命运；随着行星以恶毒的光线或仁慈的光线与之相会，或者随着旋转的天把它们带到不同的门轴，命运就这样展开，整个计划或成或败：

Their Names and Kinds obliging Muse reherse, / And sing their Titles in no vulgar Verse, / That late Posterity with Joy may throng / To Themes unknown, and crowd to learn my Song.

乐于效劳的缪斯啊，请复述它们的名称与种类，用不凡俗的诗句歌唱它们的名号，好让遥远的后人欢喜地拥向这些前所未闻的题目，挤来学习我的诗歌。

First Lot

［第一份］

Fortune's the first: This Name our Art bestows, / And what it signifies the Title shows.

福运是第一份：我们的技艺给它这个名称，它意味着什么，名号本身就说明了。

Here House is found, with all that may conduce

这里可以找到家宅，以及一切有助于

Vid. Fig. 11

［见原书图十一］

To House, either for Ornament or Use: / What train of Servants, what extent of Field / Shall aid the Birth, or give him room to build: / When large Foundations may be safely laid, / Or Houses roof'd; if Friendly Planets aid.

家宅的装饰或用途的东西：有多少仆从、多大的田产来帮助所生之人，或者给他营造的余地；什么时候可以安全地打下宏大的地基，或给房屋盖顶，如果友好的行星相助的话。

Second Lot

［第二份］

Warfare's the next: And 'tis in This decreed / How every Native shall in Arms succeed: / What Dangers wait them when abroad they roam, / To pick up Follies which they miss at home.

其次是征战：这一份决定每个本命者在兵戈中怎样成功；当他们在外漫游时，有什么危险在等着他们，去拾取他们在家中错过的种种愚行。

Third Lot

［第三份］

Civil Employments in the Third we find, / Tho those too justly may be styl'd a kind / Of Warfare; when two different Interests jarr, / Oppos'd in sides, and make a sort of War.

第三份里是公务，虽然公务也完全可以称为一种征战：两种不同的利益相冲突，分成对立的两边，形成一种战争。

Here's Patronage, and here our Art descries / What breaks its bands, what draws the closer ties, / Shows what Rewards our Services may gain, / And how too often we may court in vain: / All this as Planets friendly Aids conspire, / Or temper Signs with their unlucky Fire.

这里有恩庇与依附，我们的技艺在这里看出什么会破坏其中的纽带，什么会把纽带系得更紧，显示我们的效劳能得到什么报酬，以及我们又是多么常常白白地逢迎：这一切都看行星是协力友好相助，还是以它们不吉的火焰浸染星座。

Fourth Lot

［第四份］

Proceed, my Muse, for in the next appear / The Court Concerns, and Fortunes of the Bar, / The pleading Patron with the fearful Throng / Of trembling Clients hanging on his Tongue.

前进吧，我的缪斯，因为下一份里出现的是法庭的事务与律师的命运：作辩护的恩主，以及一群战战兢兢、悬在他舌头上的委托人。

The smooth Perswader who shall teach the Laws, / And settle Right, whilst Truth supports the Cause; / For from this Lot the Planets Rays dispense / The various Powers of winning Eloquence. / The Fifth to Marriage Sacred yet pretends

还有那善于劝说、将要讲授法律、在真理支持讼案时确立是非的人；因为行星的光线从这一份散布出赢得人心的雄辩的种种力量。第五份则自称属于神圣的婚姻，又属于

Fifth Lot

［第五份］

To Guests, Acquaintance, Company, and Friends; / Here we discern the Common League that binds / The Equal Souls, and joyns agreeing Minds.

宾客、相识、同伴与朋友；在这里我们看出那把相等的灵魂系在一起、把投合的心联结起来的共同盟约。