Epic, Lyric, and Elegiac Poems of Andreas Libavius

Meanwhile, the Melapyrgian the "Black-towered" warrior from the previous context hero arrives little by little,
And, undiscovered because of the murmurs of the windy night,
He occupies the approaches, nor is there any longer delay, fire
Is added to the Catapult; this, as if it had struggled for a little while,
Divided the path with flames, thunders horribly, and
Breaks the opposing doors with great force, and drives
The planks and the mass of stone, which fly out into the open.
The soldier follows the force quickly, and he cuts down the bands of watchmen
In rivalry, and fixes them, and with leaden hail
He casts down the opposing wedges, he disturbs and rushes through.
Part fortifies the approaches, part seizes the brazen standards,
And he has discharged the globes rashly, lest they be able to be directed against the faces
Of the soldier before the doors, and delay the allies.
From everywhere through the neighborhoods, there is a running together through the whole city.
Sudden terror administers various weapons to the hands.
This one snatches a bow, this one fights with a Median scimitar,
That one thunders with fiery globes, but that one with clubs.
Part, sluggish, had barely lifted their limbs from the beds of the SOTAN the Sultan,
And grabbing the obvious weapons, had run forward; through naked limbs
The cotton clothing fluttered rashly.
So much spirit was under the breast, since they desired to run unarmed
Against the armored enemy, so bravely.
Such was the appearance of things when TROY was burning
With Pelasgian flames, and the horse had brought forth from its womb
Thoas, and Sthenelus the leaders, and Ithaca Ulysses, and Thoas,
And Pelides, and Neoptolemus, and fair-haired Menelaus.
Indeed the guards fall, and the gates being open, all
The allies gather, and mingle their right hands in the battles.
Then someone, buried in sleep under the first night,
Saw the sad faces of the BASHA Pasha SINAN
Present to him, and his body defiled with a hideous mark.
Alas, how foul he was, how much changed from him