Eclogues
Virgil
Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
- Who owns the flock, Damoetas? Meliboeus?
- Nay, they are Aegon's sheep, of late by him
- committed to my care.
- O every way
- unhappy sheep, unhappy flock! while he
- still courts Neaera, fearing lest her choice
- should fall on me, this hireling shepherd here
- wrings hourly twice their udders, from the flock
- filching the life-juice, from the lambs their milk.