Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. comparing small with great; but this as far
  2. above all other cities rears her head
  3. as cypress above pliant osier towers.
MELIBOEUS
  1. And what so potent cause took you to Rome?
TITYRUS
  1. Freedom, which, though belated, cast at length
  2. her eyes upon the sluggard, when my beard
  3. 'gan whiter fall beneath the barber's blade—
  4. cast eyes, I say, and, though long tarrying, came,
  5. now when, from Galatea's yoke released,
  6. I serve but Amaryllis: for I will own,