CENTURIA III · QUATRAIN LXXXII
The D-Day Swarm
Freins, Antibor, villes autour de Nice,
Seront vastees fort par mer & par terre:
Les sauterelles terre & mer vent propice,
Prins, morts, troussez, pilles, sans loi de guerre.
Freins, Antibor, towns around Nice
will be wasted sorely by sea and by land:
the locusts by land and sea, the wind favorable,
taken, dead, trussed, pillaged, without law of war.
THE MASTER SAYS…
This quatrain relates to the events of World War II. It mentions two cities, but in general all of France suffered violence from Germany. But then it was saved, and Germany was swallowed by locusts on D-Day, when large naval forces crossed the waters and landed on the coast of France. The weather that day was ideal for the operation. The additional meaning of these two anagrams refers to some major, similar victories in the Pacific Ocean. Translators figured this out quite well. They thought it was a military invasion of France. Some of them were translated correctly or close to the correct meaning, and he is glad of that. But this does not apply to all quatrains, so he tries to clarify everything as much as possible to bring the greatest benefit.