these proved that he loved her; but they were also symbols of the fact that she was going to lose him and be cast into the arms of a lecherous old man.
这证明了他的爱,然而同时又说明她就要失掉他的爱到那个可怕的老头子那里去了。
because it seems…though a slave and captive of lecherous old men…the oracle's words could set fire to all that i love.