esteemed by the citizens, and what kind of a man shall I be esteemed by my newly-married wife? With what kind of a husband will she think that she is mated? Therefore either let me go to the hunt, or persuade me by reason that these things are better for me done as now
- Y Creso respondió de este modo: «Hijo mío, no porque haya observado en ti espíritu alguno de cobardía o cualquier otra cosa desagradable actúo así; sino que la visión de un sueño se me apareció de pie en sueños y me dijo que habías de tener corta vida y que habías de perecer por la punta de una lanza de hierro. Teniendo presente esta visión, por lo tanto, tanto apresuré este matrimonio para ti como me niego ahora a enviarte al asunto que se está emprendiendo, cuidando de ti para robarte a tu destino al menos por el período de mi propia vida, si de algún modo me fuera posible hacerlo. Pues eres, da la casualidad, mi único hijo; al otro no lo cuento como tal, ya que es deficiente de oído».
- The young man made answer thus:
“It may well be forgiven in thee, O my father, that thou shouldest have a care of me after having seen such a vision; but that which thou dost not understand, and in which the meaning of the dream has escaped thee, it is right that I should expound to thee. Thou sayest the dream declared that I should end my life by means of a spear-point of iron: but what hands has a boar, or what spear-point of iron, of which thou art afraid? If the dream had told thee that I should end my life by a tusk, or any other thing which resembles that, it would be right for thee doubtless to do as thou art doing; but it said ‘by a spear-point.’ Since therefore our fight will not be with men, let me now go.”
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