Eclogues
Virgil
Vergil. The Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics Of Virgil. Greenough, J.B., editor. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1881.
- Populus Alcidae gratissima, vitis Iaccho,
- formosae myrtus Veneri, sua laurea Phoebo;
- Phyllis amat corylos: illas dum Phyllis amabit,
- nec myrtus vincet corylos, nec laurea Phoebi.
- Fraxinus in silvis pulcherrima, pinus in hortis,
- populus in fluviis, abies in montibus altis:
- saepius at si me, Lycida formose, revisas,
- fraxinus in silvis cedat tibi, pinus in hortis.
- Haec memini, et victum frustra contendere Thyrsim:
- ex illo Corydon Corydon est tempore nobis.