Eclogues

Virgil

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

  • her fair white loins with barking monsters girt
  • vexed the Dulichian ships, and, in the deep
  • swift-eddying whirlpool, with her sea-dogs tore
  • the trembling mariners? or how he told
  • of the changed limbs of Tereus—what a feast,
  • what gifts, to him by Philomel were given;