Translation of "Cables" in English

Il dit : au même instant, de leurs cables tendus / les vaisseaux affranchis à la mer sont rendus.

Then bids the crews unbind / the stern-ropes, loose the sheets and spread them to the wind.

Recelant dans son sein l'appareil des batailles, / la masse énorme avance et franchit nos murailles ; / un chœur nombreux d'enfants en chantant le conduit, / et se plaît à toucher les cables qu'elle suit.

We breach the walls, and ope the town inside. / All set to work, and to the feet below / fix wheels, and hempen ropes around the neck they throw. / Mounting the walls, the monster moves along, / teeming with arms. Boys, maidens joy around / to touch the ropes, and raise the festive song.

Le rapide Zéphire, et les fiers aquilons, / et les vents de l'Afrique, en naufrages féconds, / tous bouleversent l'onde, et des mers turbulentes / roulent les vastes flots sur leurs rives tremblantes. / On entend des nochers les tristes hurlements, / et des cables froissés les affreux sifflements.

- They press down upon the sea and stir it up from the lowest depths, East and South and Southwest winds as one, thick with tempests, they roll the vast waves to the shores. There follows the shouting of men and the shrieking of ropes.
- East, West and squally South-west, with a roar, / swoop down on Ocean, and the surf and sand / mix in dark eddies, and the watery floor / heave from its depths, and roll huge billows to the shore. / Then come the creak of cables and the cries / of seamen.

" De cent verrous d'airain les robustes barrières / refermeront de Mars les portes meurtrières ; / la Discorde au dedans, fille affreuse d'enfer, / hideuse, y rougira sous cent cables de fer, / et, sur l'amas rouillé des lances inhumaines, / de sa bouche sanglante en vain mordra ses chaînes. "

"Then wars shall cease and savage times grow mild, / and Remus and Quirinus, brethren twain, / with hoary Faith and Vesta undefiled, / shall give the law. With iron bolt and chain / firm-closed the gates of Janus shall remain. / Within, the Fiend of Discord, high reclined / on horrid arms, unheeded in the fane, / bound with a hundred brazen knots behind, / and grim with gory jaws, his grisly teeth shall grind."