Eclogues

Virgil

Vergil. The Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics Of Virgil. Greenough, J.B., editor. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1881.

  • Maenalus, et gelidi fleverunt saxa Lycaei.
  • Stant et oves circum;—nostri nec poenitet illas,
  • nec te poeniteat pecoris, divine poeta;—
  • et formosus ovis ad flumina pavit Adonis;
  • venit et upilio; tardi venere subulci;
  • uvidus hiberna venit de glande Menalcas.
  • Omnes “Unde amor iste” rogant “tibi?” Venit Apollo:
  • “Galle, quid insanis?” inquit; “tua cura Lycoris
  • perque nives alium perque horrida castra secuta est.”