Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. so sweet Amyntas, and none else, to me.”
DAMOETAS
  1. “My Muse, although she be but country-bred,
  2. is loved by Pollio: O Pierian Maids,
  3. pray you, a heifer for your reader feed!”
DAMOETAS
  1. “Pollio himself too doth new verses make:
  2. feed ye a bull now ripe to butt with horn,
  3. and scatter with his hooves the flying sand.”