Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. to Syracusan strains, nor blushed within
  2. the woods to house her. When I sought to tell
  3. of battles and of kings, the Cynthian god
  4. plucked at mine ear and warned me: “Tityrus,
  5. beseems a shepherd-wight to feed fat sheep,
  6. but sing a slender song.” Now, Varus, I—
  7. for lack there will not who would laud thy deeds,
  8. and treat of dolorous wars—will rather tune
  9. to the slim oaten reed my silvan lay.