[338] See Hortis, Studi sulle opere Latine del B. (Trieste, 1879), p. 5 et seq.
[339] Here is part of the Eclogue which will be useful to us:—
"Fleverunt montes Argum, flevere dolentes
Et Satyri, Faunique leves, et flevit Apollo.
Ast moriens silvas juveni commisit Alexo,
Qui cautus modicum, dum armenta per arva trahebat,
In gravidam tum forte lupam, rabieque tremendam
Incidit impavidus, nullo cum lumine lustrum
Ingrediens, cujus surgens sævissima guttur
Dentibus invasit, potuit neque ab inde revelli,