悲劇的誕生The Birth Of Tragedy第62期:穿古裝粉墨登場

What were you thinking of, overweening Euripides, when you hoped to press myth, then in its last agony, into your service?

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瀆神的歐裏庇德斯呵，你想再度強迫這垂死者替你服役，是何居心呢？

It died under your violent hands;

在你無情的鐵腕下，它死了；

but you could easily put in its place an imitation that, like Heracles' monkey, would trick itself out in the master's robes.

於是你使用一種僞裝的神話膺品。它象赫拉克勒斯的猿猴那樣，只好穿起古裝，粉墨登場。

And even as myth, music too died under your hands;

因爲神話死在你手上。所以音樂之精靈也棄世了，

though you plundered greedily all the gardens of music, you could achieve no more than a counterfeit.

即使你貪得無厭搜掠所有音樂芳園，你也只能羅掘得一種僞裝的音樂膺品。

And because you had deserted Dionysus, you were in turn deserted by Apollo.

因爲你拋棄了酒神，夢神也就拋棄了你；

Though you hunted all the passions up from their couch and conjured them into your circle,

即使你要從龍潭虎穴狩捕所有潛伏的熱情，將他們咒禁在你的範圍之內，

though you pointed and burnished a sophistic dialectic for the speeches of your heroes, they have only counterfeit passions and speak counterfeit speeches.

即使你爲了你的英雄的談吐磨利口槍舌劍，可是你的英雄只有矯揉造作的假情，只能說出言不由衷的假話。