Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. Who owns the flock, Damoetas? Meliboeus?
DAMOETAS
  1. Nay, they are Aegon's sheep, of late by him
  2. committed to my care.
MENALCAS
  1. O every way
  2. unhappy sheep, unhappy flock! while he
  3. still courts Neaera, fearing lest her choice
  4. should fall on me, this hireling shepherd here
  5. wrings hourly twice their udders, from the flock
  6. filching the life-juice, from the lambs their milk.