Eclogues
Virgil
Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
- with envy: if he praise beyond my due,
- then bind my brow with foxglove, lest his tongue
- with evil omen blight the coming bard.”
- “This bristling boar's head, Delian Maid, to thee,
- with branching antlers of a sprightly stag,
- young Micon offers: if his luck but hold,