One of the founding works of Western literature, the Bucolics of Virgil, composed in the first century b.c.e., present an idealised world in which shepherds sing of their adventures and misadventures in love, the desire for a life of peace among other topics. Bucolic 5, situated halfway through the work, which contains 10 poems, represents a sort of poetic dispute (more specifically an amoebean verse, i.e. a dialogue poem), in which two shepherds, Menalcas and Mopso, sing the funeral eulogy of Daphnis, the mythical inventor of pastoral poetry, as well as his divinisation. This poem shows the power of poetry, which can bring peace. Thinking of the bucolic genre as marginal (compared to epic) and of the poetic dispute, we reflect on the translation of Bucolic 5 by two poets, Paul Valéry and Péricles Eugênio da Silva Ramos, and then propose our own slam version, updating the poem s context and meaning.