Georgics
Virgil
Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
- Nor be thy dogs last cared for; but alike
- Swift Spartan hounds and fierce Molossian feed
- On fattening whey. Never, with these to watch,
- Dread nightly thief afold and ravening wolves,
- Or Spanish desperadoes in the rear.
- And oft the shy wild asses thou wilt chase,
- With hounds, too, hunt the hare, with hounds the doe;
- Oft from his woodland wallowing-den uprouse
- The boar, and scare him with their baying, and drive,
- And o'er the mountains urge into the toils
- Some antlered monster to their chiming cry.