Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. full-length in polished marble, ankle-bound
  2. with purple buskin, shall thy statue stand.”
THYRSIS
  1. “A bowl of milk, Priapus, and these cakes,
  2. yearly, it is enough for thee to claim;
  3. thou art the guardian of a poor man's plot.
  4. Wrought for a while in marble, if the flock
  5. at lambing time be filled,stand there in gold.”
CORYDON
  1. “Daughter of Nereus, Galatea mine,
  2. sweeter than Hybla-thyme, more white than swans,
  3. fairer than ivy pale, soon as the steers