Eclogues

Virgil

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

  • o ill-starred maid, what frenzy caught thy soul
  • the daughters too of Proetus filled the fields
  • with their feigned lowings, yet no one of them
  • of such unhallowed union e'er was fain
  • as with a beast to mate, though many a time
  • on her smooth forehead she had sought for horns,
  • and for her neck had feared the galling plough.
  • O ill-starred maid! thou roamest now the hills,
  • while on soft hyacinths he, his snowy side
  • reposing, under some dark ilex now