Eclogues

Virgil

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

  • For him, on whom his parents have not smiled,
  • gods deem not worthy of their board or bed.
    • MENALCAS
    1. Why, Mopsus, being both together met,
    2. you skilled to breathe upon the slender reeds,
    3. I to sing ditties, do we not sit down
    4. here where the elm-trees and the hazels blend?
    MOPSUS
    1. You are the elder, 'tis for me to bide