Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. I have a father and a step-dame harsh,
  2. and twice a day both reckon up the flock,
  3. and one withal the kids. But I will stake,
  4. seeing you are so mad, what you yourself
  5. will own more priceless far—two beechen cups
  6. by the divine art of Alcimedon
  7. wrought and embossed, whereon a limber vine,
  8. wreathed round them by the graver's facile tool,
  9. twines over clustering ivy-berries pale.
  10. Two figures, one Conon, in the midst he set,