Eclogues
Virgil
Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
- Nay, had I not, from hollow ilex-bole
- warned by a raven on the left, cut short
- the rising feud, nor I, your Moeris here,
- no, nor Menalcas, were alive to-day.
- Alack! could any of so foul a crime
- be guilty? Ah! how nearly, thyself,