Translator Reviews ( English → Japanese )
Rating: 61 / Native Japanese / 0 Reviews / 04 Jan 2013 at 22:41
Those who are neutral aggravate the trouble between them by bearing reports back and forth under the pretence of good-will and thus exasperating them still further. For there is a element which is anxious to see all those who have power at variance with one another, an element which takes delight in their enmity and joins in plots against them. And the one who has suffered from calumny is easy to deceive with words adapted to the purpose by friends whose attachment is free from suspicion. Thus it was that these men, who even before this had not trusted each other, became more estranged than ever.So Antony attempted to attract the populace to see if he could detach them from his rival and win them to himself.
中立的な立場の人たちは、好意を装って報告を送ったり返したりすることで、彼らの間のトラブルを悪化させ、さらに彼らをいらだたせた。そこには権力者たちが互いに敵対するのを見たくてたまらないという要素、権力者たちの反目を見て喜び、陰謀に加担したいという要素があるからだ。そして中傷を受けて苦しんだ人は、疑いとは何の縁もない友人からの言葉でも意図的に脚色すれば容易に騙されてしまうものだ。この男たちはまさにそういう状況だった。これより前でさえお互いに信頼し合ってはいなかったが、さらに仲が悪化していった。そしてAntonyは、ライバルから民衆を引き離して自分の方へ惹きつけ、我がものにしようと試みた。