Rosen, Ralph MFarrell, Joseph2023-05-222023-05-2219862006-09-26https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/8063In the rambling sequence of thoughts in Ecl. 10.31-69 that expresses the state of the lovesick Gallus, Vergil depicts his friend as proposing to abandoning elegy for bucolic poetry, and to take up a pair of activities resumably related to this change. These activities - carving love messages on trees and hunting - are to some extent typical of the unrequited literary, especially pastoral, lover:1Article