Meliboeus: Non equidem inuideo. miror magis: undique totis
usque adeo turbatur agris. en ipse capellas
protinus aeger ago; hanc etiam uix, Tityre, duco.
hic inter densas corylos modo namque gemellos,
spem gregis, a! silice in nuda conixa reliquit.    15
saepe malum hoc nobis, si mens non laeua fuisset,
de caelo tactas memini praedicere quercus.
sed tamen iste deus qui sit, da, Tityre, nobis.

Answer with one Latin word: give the subject of each verb:
(put all answers in the nominative: use the words in the poem, or pronouns ego, tu, ille/illa/illud, nos, vos, illi/illae/illa):
  1. miror
  2. turbatur
  3. ago
  4. reliquit
  5. fuisset
  6. memini
  7. praedicere
  8. sit
  9. da
Answer the following questions with one Latin word from the poem:
  1. Quo turbatur?
  2. Quis aeger est ?
  3. Quomodo Meliboeus matrem gemellorum ducit?
  4. Quid capella reliquit?
  5. Quid est spes gregis?
  6. Quid praedicunt quercus?

In these lines, find:

  1. An impersonal verb.
  2. An imperative
  3. A subjunctive
  4. 3 adverbs in line 11
  5. 4 direct objects
  6. 3 objects of prepositions
  7.  an adjective used as a noun
  8. 6 other adjectives

Write the following in Latin (use only words found in the poem):

  1. Oaks, touched from the sky, kept predicting this evil thing.
  2. Tityrus will tell Meliboeus who the god is.

Answer the following in English:

  1. If you were acting out this poem in the role of Meliboeus, describe the emotions and thoughts running through Meliboeus' head here.
  2. Is this poem depicting a positive view of the world? A negative view? Something else? Take a strong stand and give your reasons.

Ancient Comment (from Maurus Servius Honoratus' Commentary on the Poems of Virgil.

[12] usque adeo turbatur agris: turbamur sine ulla discretione culpae vel meriti. et invidiose tempora Augusti carpit latenter. sane vera lectio est 'turbatur', ut sit inpersonale, quod ad omnes pertinet generaliter: nam Mantuanorum fuerat communis expulsio. si enim 'turbamur' legeris, videtur ad paucos referri.

 [15] spem gregis id est marem et feminam: reparatio enim gregis in sexu utroque consistit. silice in nuda ad hoc per- tinet praemissa dolentis interiectio: nam solent herbas substernere, ut ipse in georgicis dicit "et multa duram stipula filicumque maniplis sternere". conixa pro eo, quod est 'enixa': nam hiatus causa mutavit praepositionem, sicut "secludite curas" pro 'excludite'.