Eclogues

Virgil

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

  • 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—
    5. both in the flower of age, Arcadians both,
    6. ready to sing, and in like strain reply.
    7. Hither had strayed, while from the frost I fend
    8. my tender myrtles, the he-goat himself,