Epic, Lyric, and Elegiac Poems of Andreas Libavius

Gathering her flames into horns, and now with diminished
Light, she had conceded to Capricorn, with the Ram Aries exalting
His sun, although even she saw
The DANUBE free, and the mountains and the Pannonian kingdoms,
Whence he had called the descendants of the Ottomans to dire attempts.
For on that night the force of men placed upon TAURINUS
Had proceeded to burn the fields of the CHRISTIANS with flames,
And from the destitute people, and scattered through the empty fields,
To seize the remnants of the year, and to compare them to the former,
Mad, she who did not know that the fires of the MOON were decreasing.
And to hasten to withdraw her faces from the lands,
With HYPERION the Sun pressing from the high heaven with his rays.
More quickly, fame flies to neighboring COMORRA,
Which the Melapyrgian the "Black-towered," a reference to Black Fortress/Komárom signs were then holding in protection,
A band had exited from the fortifications of the firm RAAB,
And had reduced the houses in number: Then the walls were garrisoned with
Rare soldiers, nor did the firm bolts placed on the gates
Admit the hostile attempts more promptly.
Hope was added to spirits, and the youth, aroused from their beds,
Did not want to postpone the desired fate for sleep.
Cohorts are led from the fortress of Strigonia for aid,
And the leader of the deed himself, the MELAPYRGIAN, hides the armed men
In the shady valleys, and sends the first ones to the walls.
Part went on high horses, part on foot, and carried weapons
In wagons, ladders, and hollowed-out boats,
And high bridges constructed to join the banks,
And wall-breaking globes, and flame-vomiting bronze cannons
To make a way through the barriers and through the enemies by wedges;
There was one mind among them all to restore salvation through Mars,
One love for them all to destroy the abominable race,
And to faithfully restore the city lost by treachery.