ABSTRACT
The First Eclogue is still marred – I dare use this strong word – by a highly controversial reading of line 69. Meliboeus has just presented himself as an exile about to be banished beyond the borders of the Imperium Romanum (64–6).
The First Eclogue is still marred – I dare use this strong word – by a highly controversial reading of line 69. Meliboeus has just presented himself as an exile about to be banished beyond the borders of the Imperium Romanum (64–6).