This is such a wonderful read. The ninth Eclogue is perhaps my favorite, and a companion to the first, in my view.
(Also, I am *drooling* over that edition of the Eclogues and Georgics!)
Today I have written about Virgil remembering (and forgetting) older songs.
On Virgil, Callimachus, Homer, Heraclitus, Shakespeare and Seamus Heaney