Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. is the cold meadow-snake, asunder burst.
  2. These triple threads of threefold colour first
  3. I twine about thee, and three times withal
  4. around these altars do thine image bear:
  5. uneven numbers are the god's delight.