Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. some evil eye my lambkins hath bewitched.”
DAMOETAS
  1. “Say in what clime—and you shall be withal
  2. my great Apollo—the whole breadth of heaven
  3. opens no wider than three ells to view.”
MENALCAS
  1. “Say in what country grow such flowers as bear
  2. the names of kings upon their petals writ,
  3. and you shall have fair Phyllis for your own.”
PALAEMON
  1. Not mine betwixt such rivals to decide:
  2. you well deserve the heifer, so does he,