Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. Two figures, one Conon, in the midst he set,
  2. and one—how call you him, who with his wand
  3. marked out for all men the whole round of heaven,
  4. that they who reap, or stoop behind the plough,
  5. might know their several seasons? Nor as yet
  6. have I set lip to them, but lay them by.
DAMOETAS
  1. For me too wrought the same Alcimedon