Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. for him, outstretched beneath a lonely rock,
  2. wept pine-clad Maenalus, and the flinty crags
  3. of cold Lycaeus. The sheep too stood around—
  4. of us they feel no shame, poet divine;
  5. nor of the flock be thou ashamed: even fair
  6. Adonis by the rivers fed his sheep—