Eclogues

Virgil

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

woods worthy of a Consul let them be.

Now the last age by Cumae's Sibyl sung

has come and gone, and the majestic roll

of circling centuries begins anew:

justice returns, returns old Saturn's reign,

with a new breed of men sent down from heaven.

Only do thou, at the boy's birth in whom

the iron shall cease, the golden race arise,

befriend him, chaste Lucina; 'tis thine own

apollo reigns. And in thy consulate,