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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: If, while you hunt the boar, I guard the nets."
DAMOETAS
"Prithee, Iollas, for my birthday guest
Send me your Phyllis; when for the young crops
I slay my heifer, you yourself shall come."
MENALCAS
"I am all hers; she wept to see me go,
And, lingering on the word, 'farewell' she said,
'My beautiful Iollas, fare you well.'"
DAMOETAS
"Fell as the wolf is to the folded flock,
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