Note 73 — DANIEL GUMB’S ROCK[64]
Reading edition
This is probably a slip of the pen for “Virgilian.” The line occurs in Virgil’s “Eclogues,” 8, 43. There is no stop at “illum.” The sentence is carried on to the next lines—
“Aut Tmaros aut Rhodope aut extremi Garamantes Nec generis nostri puerum nec sanguinis edunt.”
Conington translates the passage thus: “Now know I what love is; it is among savage rocks that he is produced by Tmarus or Rhodope or the Garamantes at earth’s end; no child of lineage or blood like ours.” Hawker’s translation, it must be owned, is preferable as far as it goes.