MLA - The Classics

Specify only the date of the edition used, not the date of the creation of the work. The numbering of divisions (stanzas or lines) remains the same in all editions, use division numbers rather than page numbers.

In-text

Virgil is expressing the view that …. (Eclogues 6.19)

Works Cited

Virgil. Eclogues. Trans. Eugene V. Rieu. New York: W.W. Norton, 1967. Print.