Eclogues
Virgil
Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
- have I set lip to them, but lay them by.
- For me too wrought the same Alcimedon
- a pair of cups, and round the handles wreathed
- pliant acanthus, Orpheus in the midst,
- the forests following in his wake; nor yet
- have I set lip to them, but lay them by.
- Matched with a heifer, who would prate of cups?
- You shall not balk me now; where'er you bid,
- I shall be with you; only let us have