Eclogues

Virgil

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

  • justice returns, returns old Saturn's reign,
  • with a new breed of men sent down from heaven.
  • Only do thou, at the boy's birth in whom
  • the iron shall cease, the golden race arise,
  • befriend him, chaste Lucina; 'tis thine own
  • apollo reigns. And in thy consulate,
  • this glorious age, O Pollio, shall begin,