Italia Virgiliana: Fauna in Eclogue II

Fauna in Eclogue II:

viridis lacertos (ln9)......... green lizards

cicadis raucis (ln13).........noisy cicadas

"canto quae solitus, si quando armenta vocabat,

Amphion Dircaeus in Actaeo Aracimtho"

….I sing, alone, as when Amphion of Dirce called the cattle in Attic Aracynthus

From : http://www.maicar.com/GML/Amphion1.html

“Amphion₁ and his twin brother Zethus were exposed as infants, but survived. Having met their mother when they were grown up, they avenged her (who had been kept as a slave), and took power in Thebes by force, killing the ruler of the city and his wife [Dirce]. Amphion₁ became then king of Thebes, and since he was a musical genius, the stones followed his lyre when he fortified the city. However, his wife provoked the wrath of Apollo and Artemis, and his house was utterly destroyed….

Musical genius
Amphion₁'s extraordinary musical talent made him famous in the whole world. And as his father-in-law was Tantalus₁, who reigned in Asia Minor, he learned from the Lydians what is called in music the "Lydian mode" (which today is equivalent of the white notes on a piano from C to C), and himself added three strings to the four old ones. Some have said that Amphion₁ was the first to set up an altar to Hermes, and that for this reason he received lessons in music from the god, being able later to draw beasts and stones after him, when he played. Yet some have thought Amphion₁ to be a clever magician that caused the stones to build themselves into a wall, just like Orpheus, through enchantments, made animals come to him when he played. They also say that he gave something to his brother-in-law Pelops₁, which the latter buried in an appropriate place, so that it would frighten the horses of cruel Oenomaus₁, when they had their chariot-race. ”

Corydon claims he can also draw animals to him with his singing. American Idol, eat your heart out.

From: http://latinlexicon.org/definition.php?p1=2004093

“Aracynthus, i, m., = Ἀράκυνθος. A mountain in Aetolia (acc. to some, in Acarnania), now Zygos, Plin. 4, 2, 3, § 6.

— A mountain between Baeotia and Attica, Prop. 4, 14, 42; Stat. Th. 2, 239; with the epithet Actaeus (Attic), Verg. E. 2, 24.”