Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. and, from the winter-acorns dripping-wet
  2. Menalcas. All with one accord exclaim:
  3. “From whence this love of thine?” Apollo came;
  4. “Gallus, art mad?” he cried, “thy bosom's care
  5. another love is following.” Therewithal
  6. Silvanus came, with rural honours crowned;
  7. the flowering fennels and tall lilies shook
  8. before him. Yea, and our own eyes beheld
  9. pan, god of Arcady, with blood-red juice