Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. thy name, thy praise, thine honour, shall endure.
  2. Even as to Bacchus and to Ceres, so
  3. to thee the swain his yearly vows shall make;
  4. and thou thereof, like them, shalt quittance claim.”
MOPSUS
  1. How, how repay thee for a song so rare?
  2. For not the whispering south-wind on its way
  3. so much delights me, nor wave-smitten beach,
  4. nor streams that race adown their bouldered beds.
MENALCAS
  1. First this frail hemlock-stalk to you I give,