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Eclogues [Eclogae, Bucolics, Pastorals], No. 4 "Pollio," l. 18ff (4.18-20) (42-38 BC) [tr. Day Lewis (1963)] - Virgil | WIST Quotations
Child, your first birthday presents will come from nature's wild -- Small presents: earth will shower you with romping ivy, foxgloves, Bouquets of gipsy lilies and sweetly-smiling acanthus. [At tibi prima, puer, nullo munuscula cultu errantis hederas passim cum baccare tellus 20mixtaque ridenti colocasia fundet acantho.] Celebrating the birth of…