Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. Say on then, since on the greensward we sit,
  2. and now is burgeoning both field and tree;
  3. now is the forest green, and now the year
  4. at fairest. Do you first, Damoetas, sing,
  5. then you, Menalcas, in alternate strain:
  6. alternate strains are to the Muses dear.
DAMOETAS
  1. “From Jove the Muse began; Jove filleth all,