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The music struck the valleys and the valleys tossed it to the stars - till the lads were warned to drive home and to count their sheep, by Vesper, as he trod unwelcome into the listening sky.
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), The Song of Silenus, from: The Pastoral Poems (The Eclogues), translated by E.V. Rieu, Penguin Classics, 1949, p. 56.
PLACE: Northern Italy (see also card no.542)
TIME: During Virgil's lifetime, ca. 70 B.C.
CIRCUMSTANCE: Silenus sang so beautifully, that the sound reverberated and disappeared into the evening sky.
Meliboeus. As luck would have it, Daphnis had just sat down under a whispering ilex-tree,...
... and the sacred oak is loud with swarming bees.
Corydon. ...I shall hang up my tuneful flute...
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), The Singing Match, from: The Pastoral Poems (The Eclogues), translated by E.V. Rieu, Penguin Classics, 1949, p. 59.
PLACE: Northern Italy (see also card no.542)
TIME: During Virgil's lifetime, ca. 70 B.C.
CIRCUMSTANCE: a singing contest, alternate style.
Damon and Alphesiboeus, singing in rivalry - let us record their pastoral melodies. A heifer heard their songs with such delight that she forgot to crop the grass; the very lynxes were bemused; and brooks, arrested, paused in their downward course.
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Damon and Alphesiboeus, from: The Pastoral Poems (The Eclogues), translated by E.V. Rieu, Penguin Classics, 1949, p. 65.
PLACE: Northern Italy (see also card no.542)
TIME: During Virgil's lifetime, ca. 70 B.C.
CIRCUMSTANCE: A singing contest, alternate style.
Reed-pipe of Maenalus, support me in my song.
On Maenalus the woods make music always and the pine-trees speak.
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Damon and Alphesiboeus, from: The Pastoral Poems (The Eclogues), translated by E.V. Rieu, Penguin Classics, 1949, p.65-66.
PLACE: Northern Italy (see also card no.542)
TIME: During Virgil's lifetime, ca. 70 B.C.
CIRCUMSTANCE: A singing contest.
Scatter the salted grain and kindle crackling twigs of bay with pitch.
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Damon and Alphesiboeus, from: The Pastoral Poems (The Eclogues), translated by E.V. Rieu, Penguin Classics, 1949, p.68.
PLACE: Northern Italy (see also card no.542)
TIME: During Virgil's lifetime, ca. 70 B.C.
CIRCUMSTANCE: Reference to the practising of spells and witchcraft kindling fire to melt wax.
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