Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. by the divine art of Alcimedon
  2. wrought and embossed, whereon a limber vine,
  3. wreathed round them by the graver's facile tool,
  4. twines over clustering ivy-berries pale.
  5. Two figures, one Conon, in the midst he set,
  6. and one—how call you him, who with his wand
  7. marked out for all men the whole round of heaven,
  8. that they who reap, or stoop behind the plough,
  9. might know their several seasons? Nor as yet