Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. no, nor Aonian Aganippe. Him
  2. even the laurels and the tamarisks wept;
  3. for him, outstretched beneath a lonely rock,
  4. wept pine-clad Maenalus, and the flinty crags
  5. of cold Lycaeus. The sheep too stood around—
  6. of us they feel no shame, poet divine;
  7. nor of the flock be thou ashamed: even fair
  8. Adonis by the rivers fed his sheep—
  9. came shepherd too, and swine-herd footing slow,