Georgics
Virgil
Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
- Of Libya's shepherds why the tale pursue?
- Why sing their pastures and the scattered huts
- They house in? Oft their cattle day and night
- Graze the whole month together, and go forth
- Into far deserts where no shelter is,
- So flat the plain and boundless. All his goods
- The Afric swain bears with him, house and home,
- Arms, Cretan quiver, and Amyclaean dog;
- As some keen Roman in his country's arms
- Plies the swift march beneath a cruel load;
- Soon with tents pitched and at his post he stands,
- Ere looked for by the foe.