Vergil's First Eclogue - with Cowboys!

Latin Learning Latin
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Cari amici, enamored with my new home’s desert landscape, I couldn’t help put an American Western twist on one of my favorite pieces of Latin literature, the First Eclogue by Vergil, in this recitation of it I did recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZMEB_5TC-s&t=2s

A couple fun quiz questions for you:

  1. There is a reference to a lightning strike — can you find the real one in the scenery?
  2. I hoped the song I chose would be appropriate for two reasons; guess what they are! :smiley:
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Brilliant! (And I love Tucson.)

But, alas, I am striking out on both quiz questions. (I’m afraid I don’t recognize the song you’re playing so nicely on your western-style tenui avena.)

Any more hints you could afford us? Please let me know, but for now I have to skedaddle.

Randy Gibbons