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Updated: June 8, 2025
As though he were a reincarnation of Daphnis or Menalcas, one of the brown-skinned boys leans over a little promontory and plays a tuneless ghaitah, while his companion, a younger lad, gives his eyes to the flock and his ears to the music. The last rains of this favoured land's brief winter have passed; beyond the plateau the sun has called flowers to life in every nook and cranny.
"And thou, Menalcas! that by treachery Didst underfong my lass to wax so light." Another reason for dubbing Florio Menalcas may be found in the character and qualities ascribed to the treacherous shepherd by Virgil.
Dost thou care then, to try this and see, dost thou care to risk a stake? Daphnis. I do care to try this and see, a stake I am ready to risk. Menalcas. But what shall we stake, what pledge shall we find equal and sufficient? Daphnis. I will pledge a calf, and do thou put down a lamb, one that has grown to his mother's height. Menalcas.
In fact, she broke her plighted vow to Colin Clout, transferred her heart to Menalcas, and let her hand accompany it. Now, from this and the preceding circumstances, the inference appears inevitable that, at or about the time of the composition of this Sixth Eclogue, the Rosalinde therein celebrated was married, or engaged to be married, to the person denounced as Menalcas.
The Gentleman of the House is tired and amazed; Menalcas is no less so, but is every Moment in Hopes that his impertinent Guest will at last end his tedious Visit. Night comes on, when Menalcas is hardly undeceived.
O bearded goat, thou mate of the white herd, and O ye blunt-faced kids, where are the manifold deeps of the forest, thither get ye to the water, for thereby is Milon; go, thou hornless goat, and say to him, 'Milon, Proteus was a herdsman, and that of seals, though he was a god. Daphnis. . . . Menalcas.
It appears she married Menalcas, the treacherous friend and rival of the "passionate shepherd." Who, then, was Menalcas? or why was this name specially selected by our poet to designate the man he disliked?
But the heart of the other was wasted with grief, and desolate, even as a maiden sorrows that is newly wed. From this time Daphnis became the foremost among the shepherds, and while yet in his earliest youth, he wedded the nymph Nais. Daphnis and Menalcas, at the bidding of the poet, sing the joys of the neatherds and of the shepherds life.
Everywhere is spring, and pastures everywhere, and everywhere the cows' udders are swollen with milk, and the younglings are fostered, wheresoever fair Nais roams; ah, if she depart, then parched are the kine, and he that feeds them! Menalcas.
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