罗马是怎样建成的（5）
《泰西故事30篇》作者：李汉昭 2017-04-10 17:32
罗马是怎样建成的（5）
Another year passed by. It was the time of the spring floods, and the Tiber had overflowed its banks. The lowlands were under water. The shepherds had driven all their flocks to the hills.
One morning King Amulius was standing alone in his palace looking out at the drenched earth and the pouring rain. Suddenly there was a great uproar at the door, and two shepherds entered bearing a covered basket in their arms.
“What have you there?” cried the king.
They removed the cover. He looked in and saw two tiny babies, wrapped in an embroi-dered cloak. Their eyes blinked, and they began to cry as the light fell upon their faces.
“Yesterday,” said the shepherds, “the Tiber suddenly flooded all our pasture lands. As we were hurrying toward the hills with our sheep we beheld a woman standing on a rock in the midst of the flood. We drew nearer, and saw that she was none other than Rhea Silvia, the daughter of old Numitor. When we would have seized her she leaped into the river, and the swirling waters carried her beyond our reach. But on the rock she left her cloak; and wrapped in the cloak, as you see them now, were these twin baby boys.”
“I doubt you not,” said Amulius, “for the cloak is the same that Rhea Silvia wore when a girl. Why did you not fling the brats into the river and let them die with their mother?”
“We dared not do so without your command,” was the answer.
“Well, then,” said the king, furious with rage, “I command it now. Carry them back to the place where you found them, and make sure that they are drowned. Out of my sight, and be quick about it!”
The shepherds again drew the cloak over the faces of the crying infants, and hurried away to do the king’s bidding.
Ⅲ The Two Shepherds
“I cannot bear to see the pretty babes drown before my eyes,” said one of the shepherds.
“Neither can I,” said the other. “They make me think of my own twin boys at home.”
“I could not see a lamb struggling in the waves without trying to save it,” said the first.
“Only yesterday,” said the second, “I saved two young wolves from drowning. And now what am I about to do?”
Thus the men talked to each other while they went on their undesired errand. Just as they rea
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Another year passed by. It was the time of the spring floods, and the Tiber had overflowed its banks. The lowlands were under water. The shepherds had driven all their flocks to the hills.
One morning King Amulius was standing alone in his palace looking out at the drenched earth and the pouring rain. Suddenly there was a great uproar at the door, and two shepherds entered bearing a covered basket in their arms.
“What have you there?” cried the king.
They removed the cover. He looked in and saw two tiny babies, wrapped in an embroi-dered cloak. Their eyes blinked, and they began to cry as the light fell upon their faces.
“Yesterday,” said the shepherds, “the Tiber suddenly flooded all our pasture lands. As we were hurrying toward the hills with our sheep we beheld a woman standing on a rock in the midst of the flood. We drew nearer, and saw that she was none other than Rhea Silvia, the daughter of old Numitor. When we would have seized her she leaped into the river, and the swirling waters carried her beyond our reach. But on the rock she left her cloak; and wrapped in the cloak, as you see them now, were these twin baby boys.”
“I doubt you not,” said Amulius, “for the cloak is the same that Rhea Silvia wore when a girl. Why did you not fling the brats into the river and let them die with their mother?”
“We dared not do so without your command,” was the answer.
“Well, then,” said the king, furious with rage, “I command it now. Carry them back to the place where you found them, and make sure that they are drowned. Out of my sight, and be quick about it!”
The shepherds again drew the cloak over the faces of the crying infants, and hurried away to do the king’s bidding.
Ⅲ The Two Shepherds
“I cannot bear to see the pretty babes drown before my eyes,” said one of the shepherds.
“Neither can I,” said the other. “They make me think of my own twin boys at home.”
“I could not see a lamb struggling in the waves without trying to save it,” said the first.
“Only yesterday,” said the second, “I saved two young wolves from drowning. And now what am I about to do?”
Thus the men talked to each other while they went on their undesired errand. Just as they rea