Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. and no slight matter was a singing-bout
  2. 'twixt Corydon and Thyrsis. Howsoe'er,
  3. I let my business wait upon their sport.
  4. So they began to sing, voice answering voice
  5. in strains alternate—for alternate strains
  6. the Muses then were minded to recall—
  7. first Corydon, then Thyrsis in reply.
    8. CORYDON
    1. “Libethrian Nymphs, who are my heart's delight,
    2. grant me, as doth my Codrus, so to sing—
    3. next to Apollo he—or if to this