ABSTRACT
Written probably in June 1818, just before, or concurrently with, The Cyclops (see headnote to no. 172). S. translated lines 1-16, 22-30, of the 77-line Latin original. His last three lines, spoken by Pan, were adopted a year later as epigraph to f&M. Much of the translation is in terza rima, but Locock’s attempt to establish a regular pattern has to postulate more missing lines than the Latin would allow, and the rhyming is too erratic to justify it. Both S.’s Virgil translations are in rough draft only.
