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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1, Poetry - Volume 1

Note 20 — SUMMER:

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Virg. Ecl. x. 9, out of Theocritus:

Quæ nemora, aut qui vos saltus habuere, puellæ Naïades, indigno cum Gallus amore periret? Nam neque Parnassi vobis juga, nam neque Pindi, Ulla moram fecere, neque Aoniæ Aganippe.—Pope.

Ogilby's translation:

Say, Naïades, where were you, in what grove, Or lawn, when Gallus fell by ill-matched love.—Wakefield.

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