Vergilius Maro, Publius; Maillol, Aristide: The eclogues of Vergil: in the original Latin with an English prose translation (London, 1927)

R VERGILIUS MARO: NINTH ECLOGUE
MOERIS LYCIDAS



LYCIDAS
Hallo, Moeris, whither away? tramping the road to
town?
MOERIS
Lycidast I have lived to see our little farmt worse than
ever I had feared, taken by a stranger, sayingt Ids


mine now, clear out, you former farmers* So now,
beaten and having lost all heart, since things have
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