Eclogues

Virgil

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

wherewith in singing he was wont to draw

time-rooted ash-trees from the mountain heights.

With these the birth of the Grynean grove

be voiced by thee, that of no grove beside

apollo more may boast him.” Wherefore speak

of Scylla, child of Nisus, who, 'tis said,