Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. These triple threads of threefold colour first
  2. I twine about thee, and three times withal
  3. around these altars do thine image bear:
  4. uneven numbers are the god's delight.
  5. Now, Amaryllis, ply in triple knots
  6. the threefold colours; ply them fast, and say
  7. this is the chain of Venus that I ply.