The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

whole world.
‘Eclogue’ no. 1, l. 64
Formosum pastor Corydon ardebat Alexin,
Delicias domini, nec quid speraret habebat.
The shepherd Corydon was in hot love with handsome Alexis, his master’s favourite, but he
was not getting anything he hoped for.
‘Eclogue’ no. 2, l. 1
O formose puer, nimium ne crede colori.
O handsome lad, don’t trust too much in your complexion.
‘Eclogue’ no. 2, l. 17
Quem fugis, a! demens? Habitarunt di quoque silvas.
Ah, madman! Whom are you running away from? Gods too have lived in the woods.
‘Eclogue’ no. 2, l. 60
Trahit sua quemque voluptas.
Everyone is dragged on by their favourite pleasure.
‘Eclogue’ no. 2, l. 65
Malo me Galatea petit, lasciva puella,
Et fugit ad salices et se cupit ante videri.
Galatea throws an apple at me, sexy girl, and runs away into the willows and wants to have
been spotted.
‘Eclogue’ no. 3, l. 64
Latet anguis in herba.
There’s a snake hidden in the grass.
‘Eclogue’ no. 3, l. 93
Non nostrum inter vos tantas componere lites.
It’s not in my power to decide such a great dispute between you.
‘Eclogue’ no. 3, l. 108
Claudite iam rivos, pueri; sat prata biberunt.
Close the sluices now, lads; the fields have drunk enough.
‘Eclogue’ no. 3, l. 111
Sicelides Musae, paulo maiora canamus!
Non omnis arbusta iuvant humilesque myricae;
Si canimus silvas, silvae sint consule dignae.
Ultima Cumaei venit iam carminis aetas;
Magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo.
Iam redit et virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna,
Iam nova progenies caelo demittitur alto.
Sicilian Muses, let us sing of rather greater things. Not everyone likes bushes and low