Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. held you, ye Dryad-maidens, when for love—
  2. love all unworthy of a loss so dear—
  3. Gallus lay dying? for neither did the slopes
  4. of Pindus or Parnassus stay you then,
  5. no, nor Aonian Aganippe. Him
  6. even the laurels and the tamarisks wept;