Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. will take them all, and wash them in the pool.”
MENALCAS
  1. “Boys, get your sheep together; if the heat,
  2. as late it did, forestall us with the milk,
  3. vainly the dried-up udders shall we wring.”
DAMOETAS
  1. “How lean my bull amid the fattening vetch!
  2. Alack! alack! for herdsman and for herd!
  3. It is the self-same love that wastes us both.”