...And storm-fenced stalls to wintry sun-beams rear, When cold Aquarius floods the parting year. . 220 Swains ! tend the lowly goat: though scorn'd of fame,...in purple dy'd, Thou tell thy goats, what countless numbers teem! 225 Look, bow their milk bursts forth in ceaseless stream ! The more th' insatiate pails...

...spring, And storm-fenced stalls to wintry sunbeams rear, When cold Aquarius floods the parting year. 220 Swains ! tend the lowly goat : though scorn'd of fame,...fleecy pride, And weigh with gold her robes in purple died, Thou tell thy goats, what countless numbers teem ! 225 Look, how their milk bursts forth -in...

...dye. Georg. iv. 334 He also alludes to the high price of Milesian fleeces in the following passage : Let rich Miletus vaunt her fleecy pride, And weigh with gold her robes in purple dyed. Georg. iii. 306. — Sothcby'i TrantlatioaThe comment of Servius on the latter passage is as...

...sphere, Turns his prone urn, and floods the parting year. ' Swains! tend the lowly goat : though scorn'di of fame, Their useful breed no slight protection claim....demand, New floods exhaustless froth beneath thy hand. Clothed in their shaven beards, and hoary hair, Fence of the ocean spray and nigluly air, The miserable...

...liis prone urn, and floods the parting year. Swains ! tend the lowly goat : though scorn'd of fíime, Their useful breed no slight protection claim. Let...Thou tell thy goats, what countless swarms abound ! Lti! milk in gushing tides o'erflows the ground! The more th' insatiate pails new loads demand, New...

...dyes ; thus we find in Sotheby's translation of the third Georgiac of Virgil the following lines : " Let rich Miletus vaunt her fleecy pride, And weigh with gold her robes in purple dyed." It is curious to look back to those times and compare them with the present. Then the most choice,...