Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. First this frail hemlock-stalk to you I give,
  2. which taught me “Corydon with love was fired
  3. for fair Alexis,” ay, and this beside,
  4. “Who owns the flock?—Meliboeus?”
MOPSUS
  1. But take you
  2. this shepherd's crook, which, howso hard he begged,
  3. antigenes, then worthy to be loved,
  4. prevailed not to obtain—with brass, you see,
  5. and equal knots, Menalcas, fashioned fair!