Лаокон во Пергамон

ЛАОКОН

Лаокон од лозјето во околина на Рим и “некојси “од олтарот на Пергамон (на сигурно во Берлин од 1879 ) во Бергама (околина на Измир,Турција).

Through these tricks and the skill of perjured Sinon, the thing was

credited, and we were trapped, by his wiliness, and false tears,

we, who were not conquered by Diomede, or Larissan Achilles,

nor by the ten years of war, nor those thousand ships.

Then something greater and more terrible befalls

us wretches, and stirs our unsuspecting souls.

Laocoön, chosen by lot as priest of Neptune,

was sacrificing a huge bull at the customary altar.

See, a pair of serpents with huge coils, snaking over the sea

from Tenedos through the tranquil deep (I shudder to tell it),

and heading for the shore side by side: their fronts lift high

over the tide, and their blood-red crests top the waves,

the rest of their body slides through the ocean behind,

and their huge backs arch in voluminous folds.

There’s a roar from the foaming sea: now they reach the shore,

and with burning eyes suffused with blood and fire,

lick at their hissing jaws with flickering tongues.

Blanching at the sight we scatter. They move

on a set course towards Laocoön: and first each serpent

entwines the slender bodies of his two sons,

and biting at them, devours their wretched limbs:

then as he comes to their aid, weapons in hand, they seize him too,

and wreathe him in massive coils: now encircling his waist twice,

twice winding their scaly folds around his throat,

their high necks and heads tower above him.

He strains to burst the knots with his hands,

his sacred headband drenched in blood and dark venom,

while he sends terrible shouts up to the heavens,

like the bellowing of a bull that has fled wounded,

from the altar, shaking the useless axe from its neck.

But the serpent pair escape, slithering away to the high temple,

and seek the stronghold of fierce Pallas, to hide there

under the goddess’s feet, and the circle of her shield.

Енеида (29-19 ПНЕ)

Атена се бори против Алкионеус еден од трите тракијски Гиганти

Виргилиј не стигнал подалеку од Атина каде се разболел и наскоро умрел во 19 ПНЕ.
Веројатно претходно тркнал и до Пергамон.