The Eclogues of Calpurnius
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Idas. Num, precor, informis videor tibi } num gravis annis } Decipiorque miser, quoties moUissima tango 85 ECLOGUE II. J5 Idas.
Although the moisture-lacking ground Parch up the drooping herbage round, 150 Yet take these milking-pails that swim With creamy riches to the brim.
Our gift of fleeces shall begin, When open weather first sets in.
And, when the tepid Kalends cool 155 The air, our sheep shall lose their wool.
ASTACUS.
We too, to whom a summer's heat. However scorching, brings its treat.... For you a thousand figs will find Of Chian growth with glossy rind ; 160 Of chestnuts too a like display, When, in the sun's December ray Maturing, the green husks have burst Wherein the ripening nuts were nurst.
Idas.
Pray tell me, if my form appears 165 So foul to you } so bowed with years } Must I with shame the cheat confess Each time my hands these features press 36 CALPURNIUS SICULUS.
Ora manu, primique sequor vestigia floris Nescius, et gracili digitos lanugine fallo ?
ASTACUS. Fontibus in Hquidis quoties me conspicor, ipse Admiror toties : etenim sic flore iuventae Induimur vultus, ut in arbore saepe notavi 90 Cerea sub tenui lucere Cydonia lana.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Idas. Num, precor, informis videor tibi } num gravis annis } Decipiorque miser, quoties moUissima tango 85 ECLOGUE II. J5 Idas.
Although the moisture-lacking ground Parch up the drooping herbage round, 150 Yet take these milking-pails that swim With creamy riches to the brim.
Our gift of fleeces shall begin, When open weather first sets in.
And, when the tepid Kalends cool 155 The air, our sheep shall lose their wool.
ASTACUS.
We too, to whom a summer's heat. However scorching, brings its treat.... For you a thousand figs will find Of Chian growth with glossy rind ; 160 Of chestnuts too a like display, When, in the sun's December ray Maturing, the green husks have burst Wherein the ripening nuts were nurst.
Idas.
Pray tell me, if my form appears 165 So foul to you } so bowed with years } Must I with shame the cheat confess Each time my hands these features press 36 CALPURNIUS SICULUS.
Ora manu, primique sequor vestigia floris Nescius, et gracili digitos lanugine fallo ?
ASTACUS. Fontibus in Hquidis quoties me conspicor, ipse Admiror toties : etenim sic flore iuventae Induimur vultus, ut in arbore saepe notavi 90 Cerea sub tenui lucere Cydonia lana.
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