Eclogues

Virgil

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

  1. our songs avail no more than, as 'tis said,
  2. doves of Dodona when an eagle comes.
  3. Nay, had I not, from hollow ilex-bole
  4. warned by a raven on the left, cut short
  5. the rising feud, nor I, your Moeris here,
  6. no, nor Menalcas, were alive to-day.