Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. now is the forest green, and now the year
  2. at fairest. Do you first, Damoetas, sing,
  3. then you, Menalcas, in alternate strain:
  4. alternate strains are to the Muses dear.
DAMOETAS
  1. “From Jove the Muse began; Jove filleth all,
  2. makes the earth fruitful, for my songs hath care.”
MENALCAS
  1. “Me Phoebus loves; for Phoebus his own gifts,
  2. bays and sweet-blushing hyacinths, I keep.”
DAMOETAS
  1. “Gay Galatea throws an apple at me,