翻訳者レビュー ( 英語 → 日本語 )

備考: 固有名詞は訳さないでいいです。

英語

Four of these were slain immediately, either at banquets or as they were met on the streets; and when search was made for the others in temples and houses, there was a sudden panic which lasted through the night, and a running to and fro with cries and lamentation as in a captured city. When it was known that men were being seized and massacred, although there was no list of those who had been previously sentenced, every man thought that he was the one whom the pursuers were in search of. Thus in despair some were on the point of burning their own houses, and others the public buildings, or of choosing some terrible deed in their frenzied state before the blow should fall upon them;

日本語

その中の4人は即刻処刑され、宴会中だった者も、道で出会った者もいた。神殿や家で他の者たちへの捜索が行なわれると、街は突然パニックに襲われ、それは夜通し続き、叫び声をあげたり悲嘆に暮れて泣き叫びながら、右往左往して走り回る光景が処刑者狩りの街で見られた。人が捕えられ虐殺されていることが知れ渡ると、それまでに判決を受けた者のリストは出回っていなかったが、誰もが、あれが追跡者らが捜している人物だ、などと思うようになった。こうして、絶望の余り自宅や公舎を燃やそうとする者や、興奮して、一撃に晒される前に身の毛もよだつような行為を選ぶ者もあった。