Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. no kin of ours, nor of our blood begot.
  2. Fierce Love it was once steeled a mother's heart
  3. with her own offspring's blood her hands to imbrue:
  4. mother, thou too wert cruel; say wert thou
  5. more cruel, mother, or more ruthless he?
  6. Ruthless the boy, thou, mother, cruel too.
  7. Now let the wolf turn tail and fly the sheep,