Eclogues

Virgil

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

and Linus fair Apollo. Nay, though Pan,

with Arcady for judge, my claim contest,

with Arcady for judge great Pan himself

should own him foiled, and from the field retire.

Begin to greet thy mother with a smile,

o baby-boy! ten months of weariness

for thee she bore: O baby-boy, begin!

For him, on whom his parents have not smiled,

gods deem not worthy of their board or bed.