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BOOK I Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc'd by fate, And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate, Expell'd and exil'd, left the Trojan shore.

Translated into English by J. W. MACKAIL, M.A. Fellow Of Balliol College, Oxford London MacMillan and Co.

people at an early stage in its development, telling its stories simply for the sake of story telling, cannot be judged by the same canons of criticism as a literary epic like the _Aeneid_ or _Para...

GEORGIC I What makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star Maecenas, it is meet to turn the sod Or marry elm with vine; how tend the steer; What pains for cattle-keeping, or what proof Of patient...

ECLOGUE I MELIBOEUS TITYRUS MELIBOEUS You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopy Reclining, on the slender oat rehearse Your silvan ditties: I from my sweet fields, And home's familiar bounds, ev...

_Lo I am he who led the song through slender reed to cry,_ _And then, come forth from out the woods, the fields that are thereby_ _In woven verse I bade obey the hungry tillers' need:_ ...