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		<title>Virgil -- Eclogues [Eclogae, Bucolics, Pastorals], No.  9 &#8220;Lycidas and Moeris,&#8221; l.  64ff (9.64) [Lycidas] (42-38 BC)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious. [Cantantes licet usque (minus via laedit) eamus.] (Source (Latin)). Alternate translations: Singing lets goe, the way shall better please. [tr. Ogilby (1649)] A Song will help the beating Storm to bear. [tr. Dryden (1709), l. 89] Light song will ease [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.</p>
<p><em>[Cantantes licet usque (minus via laedit) eamus.]</em></p>
<br><b>Virgil</b> (70-19 BC) Roman poet [b. Publius Vergilius Maro; also Vergil]<br><i>Eclogues [Eclogae, Bucolics, Pastorals]</i>, No.  9 &#8220;Lycidas and Moeris,&#8221; l.  64ff (9.64) [Lycidas] (42-38 BC) 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=W3SG1hJSArIC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=RA2-PR25&dq=%22Let+us+go+singing+as+far+as+we+go%22&hl=en&source=newbks_fb#v=onepage&q=%22Let%20us%20go%20singing%20as%20far%20as%20we%20go%22&f=false" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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(<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0056%3Apoem%3D9#:~:text=cantantes%20licet%20usque%20(minus%20via%20laedit)%20eamus">Source (Latin)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>Singing lets goe, the way shall better please.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A65106.0001.001/1:4.9?rgn=div2;view=fulltext#:~:text=Singing%20lets%20goe%2C%20the%20way%20shall%20better%20please">Ogilby</a> (1649)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>A Song will help the beating Storm to bear.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Works_of_Virgil_(Dryden)/Pastorals_(Dryden)/Book_9#:~:text=A%20Song%20will%20help%20the%20beating%20Storm%20to%20bear.">Dryden</a> (1709), l. 89]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Light song will ease the road of half its care.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/virgilgeorgics00virggoog/page/n78/mode/2up?q=%22light+song%22">Wrangham</a> (1830), l. 76]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Yet we may still go on singing; the way will be less tedious.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Works_of_Virgil/GuFCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22less%20tedious%22">Davidson</a> (1854)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Singing let us journey on --<br>
(The way will seem less tedious).<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/eclogues00virg/page/88/mode/2up?q=%22singing+let+us+journey%22">Calverley</a> (c. 1871)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>We may as well sing -- it makes the journey less irksome.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Literal_Translation_of_the_Eclogues_an/ZghPAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22may%20as%20well%20sing%22">Wilkins</a> (1873)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Move on, and should the way seem long, <br>
Shorten the distance with a song.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.18134/page/n51/mode/2up?q=%22way+seem+long%22">King</a> (1882), ll. 915-916]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Walk on, and make <br>
The road less tedious with our verse.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/englishversionof00virg/page/n155/mode/2up?q=%22walk+on+and+make%22">Palmer</a> (1883)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Then singing let us go,<br>
our way to lighten.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0057%3Apoem%3D9#:~:text=then%20singing%20let%20us%20go%2C%0Aour%20way%20to%20lighten">Greenough</a> (1895)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Let us go on still singing; the way is less tedious.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/bucolicsgeorgics0000aham/page/46/mode/2up?q=%22let+us+go+on%22">Bryce</a> (1897)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>We may go singing all the way, and the road weary us the less.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Eclogues_and_Georgics_(Mackail_1910)/Eclogue_9#:~:text=we%20may%20go%20singing%20all%20the%20way%2C%20and%20the%20road%20weary%20us%20the%20less">Mackail</a> (1899)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Let us go singing to beguile our way.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Eclogues_of_Virgil_(1908)/Eclogue_9#:~:text=Let%20us%20go%20singing%20to%20beguile%20our%20way.">Mackail/Cardew</a> (1908)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Let us go forward singing, for the path <br>
Tires us less so.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/georgicsandeclo01palmgoog/page/n170/mode/2up?q=%22forward+singing%22">Williams</a> (1915)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>We may yet go singing on our way -- it makes the road less irksome.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.theoi.com/Text/VirgilEclogues.html#9:~:text=we%20may%20yet%20go%20singing%20on%20our%20way%20%E2%80%93%20it%20makes%20the%20road%20less%20irksome.">Fairclough</a> (Loeb) (1916)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Let us sing carols all the way: 'twill be<br>
Less tedious.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Eclogues_Bucolics_Or_Pastorals_of_Vi/V__fAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22sing%20carols%22">Royds</a> (1922)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Why not go forward singing all the way? It makes the going easier.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/pastoralpoemstex0000virg/page/108/mode/2up?q=%22forward+singing%22">Rieu</a> (1949)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>We still may sing as we go and lighten the journey.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/pastoralsversetr0000virg/page/54/mode/2up?q=%22still+may+sing%22">Johnson</a> (1960)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">We can press on,<br>
Singing as we go: a song lightens a long road.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/ecloguesgeorgics0000unse_l5h3/page/68/mode/2up?q=%22we+can+press+on%22">Day Lewis</a> (1963), ll. 63-64]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Let's keep on going, but singing as we go.<br>
Sing makes the journey easier.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/ecloguesofvirgil0000virg_q3t0/page/76/mode/2up?q=%22keep+on+going%22">Ferry</a> (1999)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>We might go along singing (the road will be less tedious).<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilEclogues.php#:~:text=we%20might%20go%20along%20singing%20(the%20road%20will%20be%20less%20tedious)">Kline</a> (2001)]</blockquote><br>
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