Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. wax-welded? in the cross-ways used you not
  2. on grating straw some miserable tune
  3. to mangle?
DAMOETAS
  1. Well, then, shall we try our skill
  2. each against each in turn? Lest you be loth,
  3. I pledge this heifer; every day she comes
  4. twice to the milking-pail, and feeds withal
  5. two young ones at her udder: say you now
  6. what you will stake upon the match with me.
MENALCAS
  1. Naught from the flock I'll venture, for at home