Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 21 ECLOGUE II. Idas, Astacus, Thyrsis. Maid Crotale yet unsubdued Young Astacus and Idas wooed ; Idas possessed a fleecy herd, His garden Astacus preferred. Their passion grew through many an hour, 5 Both graced alike with Beauty's dower, Nor less well matched in shepherd's glees. They, when with blighting heat the leas Were withering, together met By chance near one cool rivulet 10 And the same elms. Each youth prepares To match his rival in soft airs, And wagered forfeits; seven sheep Idas, the other will not keep His garden's harvest if he lose, 15 And both as arbitrator choose Thyrsis, for 'twas a contest rare. Of cattle every kind was there, Adfuitomne genuspecudum, genus omne ferarum, 10 Et quaecumque vagis altum ferit aera pennis. Convenit umbrosa quicumque sub ilice lentas Pascit oves, Faunusque pater, Satyrique bicornes. Adfuerunt sicco Dryades pede, Naiades udo, Et tenuere suos properantia flumina cursus. 15. Desistunt tremulis incurrere frondibus Euri, Altaque per totos fecere silentia montes. Omnia cessabant, neglectaque pascua tauri Calcabant: illis etiam certantibus ausa est Daedala nectareos apis intermittere flores. 20 Iamque sub annosa medius consederat umbra Thyrsis, et, O pueri me iudice pignora, dixit, Wild beasts, and whatsoe'er on high With roving pinions cleaves the sky. 20 There all, who sheep slow-pacing lead Beneath the ilex green to feed, Bear Father Faunus company; And thither twi-horned Satyrs hie. Nymphs of the woods and waters meet, 25 Dry-sandalled, or with dewy feet, And rivers, hastening from their source, Stayed for awhile their wonted course. The Eastern breeze, that rides at play On quivering leaves, now dies away, 30 And all the vast expans...