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Cato, Marcus Porcius, On Agriculture, 134


nanBefore harvest the sacrifice of the porca praecidanea should be offered in this manner: Offer a sow as porca praecidanea to Ceres before harvesting spelt, wheat, barley, beans, and rape seed; and address a prayer, with incense and wine, to Janus, Jupiter, and Juno, before offering the sow. Make an offering of cakes to Janus, with these words: "Father Janus, in offering these cakes, I humbly beg that thou wilt be gracious and merciful to me and my children, my house and my household." Then make an offering of cake to Jupiter with these words: "In offering this cake, O Jupiter I humbly beg that thou, pleased by this offering, wilt be gracious and merciful to me and my children, my house and my household." Then present the wine to Janus, saying: "Father Janus, as I prayed humbly in offering the cakes, so wilt thou to the same end be honoured by this wine placed before thee." And then pray to Jupiter thus: "Jupiter, wilt thou deign to accept the cake; wilt thou deign to accept the wine placed before thee." Then offer up the porca praecidanea. When the entrails have been removed, make an offering of cakes to Janus, with a prayer as before; and an offering of a cake to Jupiter, with a prayer as before. After the same manner, also, offer wine to Janus and offer wine to Jupiter, as was directed before for the offering of the cakes, and the consecration of the cake. Afterwards offer entrails and wine to Ceres.


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 585 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

585. of an ox to keep the downpour from your back
2. Cato, Marcus Porcius, On Agriculture, 139, 141, 132 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)

132. The offering is to be made in this way: offer to Jupiter Dapalis a cup of wine of any size you wish, observing the day as a holiday for the oxen, the teamsters, and those who make the offering. In making the offering use this formula: "Jupiter Dapalis, forasmuch as it is fitting that a cup of wine be offered thee, in my house and in the midst of my people, for they sacred feast; and to that end, be thou honoured by the offering of this food." Wash the hands, then take the wine, and say: "Jupiter Dapalis, be thou honoured by the offering of thy feast, and be thou honoured by the wine placed before thee." You may make an offering to Vesta if you wish. Present it to Jupiter religiously, in the fitting form. The feast to Jupiter consists of roasted meat and an urn of wine. After the offering is made plant millet, panic grass, garlic, and lentils.
3. Horace, Letters, 2.1.139-2.1.144 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

4. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.250-1.261 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

5. Vergil, Georgics, 1.1-1.5, 1.22-1.39, 1.338, 2.380-2.396, 2.514-2.515, 3.23

1.1. What makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star 1.2. Maecenas, it is meet to turn the sod 1.3. Or marry elm with vine; how tend the steer; 1.4. What pains for cattle-keeping, or what proof 1.5. of patient trial serves for thrifty bees;— 1.22. of thine own Maenalus constrains thee, hear 1.23. And help, O lord of placeName key= 1.24. Minerva, from whose hand the olive sprung; 1.25. And boy-discoverer of the curved plough; 1.26. And, bearing a young cypress root-uptorn 1.27. Silvanus, and Gods all and Goddesses 1.28. Who make the fields your care, both ye who nurse 1.29. The tender unsown increase, and from heaven 1.30. Shed on man's sowing the riches of your rain: 1.31. And thou, even thou, of whom we know not yet 1.32. What mansion of the skies shall hold thee soon 1.33. Whether to watch o'er cities be thy will 1.34. Great Caesar, and to take the earth in charge 1.35. That so the mighty world may welcome thee 1.36. Lord of her increase, master of her times 1.37. Binding thy mother's myrtle round thy brow 1.38. Or as the boundless ocean's God thou come 1.39. Sole dread of seamen, till far placeName key= 1.338. Nay even on holy days some tasks to ply 2.380. Nor midst the vines plant hazel; neither take 2.381. The topmost shoots for cuttings, nor from the top 2.382. of the supporting tree your suckers tear; 2.383. So deep their love of earth; nor wound the plant 2.384. With blunted blade; nor truncheons intersperse 2.385. of the wild olive: for oft from careless swain 2.386. A spark hath fallen, that, 'neath the unctuous rind 2.387. Hid thief-like first, now grips the tough tree-bole 2.388. And mounting to the leaves on high, sends forth 2.389. A roar to heaven, then coursing through the bough 2.390. And airy summits reigns victoriously 2.391. Wraps all the grove in robes of fire, and gro 2.392. With pitch-black vapour heaves the murky reek 2.393. Skyward, but chiefly if a storm has swooped 2.394. Down on the forest, and a driving wind 2.395. Rolls up the conflagration. When 'tis so 2.396. Their root-force fails them, nor, when lopped away 2.514. Twice weeds with stifling briers o'ergrow the crop; 2.515. And each a toilsome labour. Do thou praise 3.23. To him will I, as victor, bravely dight


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
action,religious Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 307
aetiology Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 106
animals,sacrificial Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 106
animals Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 106
bacchus Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 106
belief,nonreflective Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 307
caesar,octavian,invoked in prayer Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 149
carmen arvale Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 307
cato Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 106
cato the elder Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 307
cattle Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 106
ceres Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 106
finales,book 2 Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 106
folk theology Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 307
gods/goddesses,communication with Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 307
hesiod,allusions to Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 106
inference Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 307
intention Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 307
locus amoenus Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 106
pastoral Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 106
prayer Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 307; Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 149
religion,in the georgics Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 106
roman religion,and prayer Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 307
sacrifice Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 307
speech act,,propositions' Mackey (2022), Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion, 307
vines Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 106
wine Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 106