Eclogues
Virgil
Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
- daphnis beneath a rustling ilex-tree
- had sat him down; Thyrsis and Corydon
- had gathered in the flock, Thyrsis the sheep,
- and Corydon the she-goats swollen with milk—
- both in the flower of age, Arcadians both,
- ready to sing, and in like strain reply.
- Hither had strayed, while from the frost I fend
- my tender myrtles, the he-goat himself,
- lord of the flock; when Daphnis I espy!
- Soon as he saw me, “Hither haste,” he cried,