Eclogues

Virgil

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

With these the birth of the Grynean grove

be voiced by thee, that of no grove beside

apollo more may boast him.” Wherefore speak

of Scylla, child of Nisus, who, 'tis said,

her fair white loins with barking monsters girt

vexed the Dulichian ships, and, in the deep

swift-eddying whirlpool, with her sea-dogs tore

the trembling mariners? or how he told

of the changed limbs of Tereus—what a feast,