Eclogues

Virgil

Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.

  1. ‘Mine once,’ quoth he, ‘now yours, as heir to own.’
  2. Foolish Amyntas heard and envied me.
  3. Ay, and two fawns, I risked my neck to find
  4. in a steep glen, with coats white-dappled still,
  5. from a sheep's udders suckled twice a day—
  6. these still I keep for you; which Thestilis
  7. implores me oft to let her lead away;
  8. and she shall have them, since my gifts you spurn.
  9. Come hither, beauteous boy; for you the Nymphs