Eclogues

Virgil

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

  • vesper, advancing, bade the shepherds tell
  • their tale of sheep, and pen them in the fold.
    1. daphnis beneath a rustling ilex-tree
    2. had sat him down; Thyrsis and Corydon
    3. had gathered in the flock, Thyrsis the sheep,
    4. and Corydon the she-goats swollen with milk—