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Lucretius Carus, On The Nature Of Things, 1.250-1.261
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1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 203-212, 299-301, 202 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 202. Might will be right and shame shall cease to be
2. Homer, Iliad, 4.422-4.426, 4.439-4.445, 4.450-4.456 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 4.422. /and terribly rang the bronze upon the breast of the prince as he moved; thereat might terror have seized even one that was steadfast of heart.As when on a sounding beach the swell of the sea beats, wave after wave, before the driving of the West Wind; out on the deep at the first is it gathered in a crest, but thereafter 4.423. /and terribly rang the bronze upon the breast of the prince as he moved; thereat might terror have seized even one that was steadfast of heart.As when on a sounding beach the swell of the sea beats, wave after wave, before the driving of the West Wind; out on the deep at the first is it gathered in a crest, but thereafter 4.424. /and terribly rang the bronze upon the breast of the prince as he moved; thereat might terror have seized even one that was steadfast of heart.As when on a sounding beach the swell of the sea beats, wave after wave, before the driving of the West Wind; out on the deep at the first is it gathered in a crest, but thereafter 4.425. /is broken upon the land and thundereth aloud, and round about the headlands it swelleth and reareth its head, and speweth forth the salt brine: even in such wise on that day did the battalions of the Danaans move, rank after rank, without cease, into battle; and each captain gave charge to his own men, and the rest marched on in silence; thou wouldst not have deemed 4.426. /is broken upon the land and thundereth aloud, and round about the headlands it swelleth and reareth its head, and speweth forth the salt brine: even in such wise on that day did the battalions of the Danaans move, rank after rank, without cease, into battle; and each captain gave charge to his own men, and the rest marched on in silence; thou wouldst not have deemed 4.439. /and bleat without ceasing as they near the voices of their lambs: even so arose the clamour of the Trojans throughout the wide host; for they had not all like speech or one language, but their tongues were mingled, and they were a folk summoned from many lands. These were urged on by Ares, and the Greeks by flashing-eyed Athene 4.440. /and Terror, and Rout, and Discord that rageth incessantly, sister and comrade of man-slaying Ares; she at the first rears her crest but little, yet thereafter planteth her head in heaven, while her feet tread on earth. She it was that now cast evil strife into their midst 4.441. /and Terror, and Rout, and Discord that rageth incessantly, sister and comrade of man-slaying Ares; she at the first rears her crest but little, yet thereafter planteth her head in heaven, while her feet tread on earth. She it was that now cast evil strife into their midst 4.442. /and Terror, and Rout, and Discord that rageth incessantly, sister and comrade of man-slaying Ares; she at the first rears her crest but little, yet thereafter planteth her head in heaven, while her feet tread on earth. She it was that now cast evil strife into their midst 4.443. /and Terror, and Rout, and Discord that rageth incessantly, sister and comrade of man-slaying Ares; she at the first rears her crest but little, yet thereafter planteth her head in heaven, while her feet tread on earth. She it was that now cast evil strife into their midst 4.444. /and Terror, and Rout, and Discord that rageth incessantly, sister and comrade of man-slaying Ares; she at the first rears her crest but little, yet thereafter planteth her head in heaven, while her feet tread on earth. She it was that now cast evil strife into their midst 4.445. /as she fared through the throng, making the groanings of men to wax. 4.450. /Then were heard alike the sound of groaning and the cry of triumph of the slayers and the slain, and the earth flowed with blood. As when winter torrents, flowing down the mountains from their great springs to a place where two valleys meet, join their mighty floods in a deep gorge 4.451. /Then were heard alike the sound of groaning and the cry of triumph of the slayers and the slain, and the earth flowed with blood. As when winter torrents, flowing down the mountains from their great springs to a place where two valleys meet, join their mighty floods in a deep gorge 4.452. /Then were heard alike the sound of groaning and the cry of triumph of the slayers and the slain, and the earth flowed with blood. As when winter torrents, flowing down the mountains from their great springs to a place where two valleys meet, join their mighty floods in a deep gorge 4.453. /Then were heard alike the sound of groaning and the cry of triumph of the slayers and the slain, and the earth flowed with blood. As when winter torrents, flowing down the mountains from their great springs to a place where two valleys meet, join their mighty floods in a deep gorge 4.454. /Then were heard alike the sound of groaning and the cry of triumph of the slayers and the slain, and the earth flowed with blood. As when winter torrents, flowing down the mountains from their great springs to a place where two valleys meet, join their mighty floods in a deep gorge 4.455. /and far off amid the mountains the shepherd heareth the thunder thereof; even so from the joining of these in battle came shouting and toil.Antilochus was first to slay a warrior of the Trojans in full armour, a goodly man amid the foremost fighters, Echepolus, son of Thalysius. Him was he first to smite upon the horn of his helmet with crest of horse-hair 4.456. /and far off amid the mountains the shepherd heareth the thunder thereof; even so from the joining of these in battle came shouting and toil.Antilochus was first to slay a warrior of the Trojans in full armour, a goodly man amid the foremost fighters, Echepolus, son of Thalysius. Him was he first to smite upon the horn of his helmet with crest of horse-hair
3. Homer, Odyssey, 5.225 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
4. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 2.49 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
5. Theophrastus, Plant Explanations, 1.6.10 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
6. Cato, Marcus Porcius, On Agriculture, 139, 141, 134 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) 134. Before 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.
7. Cicero, On Divination, 1.126 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 1.126. Ex quo intellegitur, ut fatum sit non id, quod superstitiose, sed id, quod physice dicitur, causa aeterna rerum, cur et ea, quae praeterierunt, facta sint et, quae instant, fiant et, quae sequuntur, futura sint. Ita fit, ut et observatione notari possit, quae res quamque causam plerumque consequatur, etiamsi non semper (nam id quidem adfirmare difficile est), easdemque causas veri simile est rerum futurarum cerni ab iis, qui aut per furorem eas aut in quiete videant. 1.126. Consequently, we know that Fate is that which is called, not ignorantly, but scientifically, the eternal cause of things, the wherefore of things past, of things present, and of things to come. Hence it is that it may be known by observation what effect will in most instances follow any cause, even if it is not known in all; for it would be too much to say that it is known in every case. And it is probable that these causes of coming events are perceived by those who see them during frenzy or in sleep. [56]
8. Cicero, On Old Age, 52-60, 51 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
9. Cicero, Letters To Quintus, 2.10.3 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
10. Varro, On Agriculture, 1.40.5, 3.16.3, 3.16.6 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
11. Horace, Epodes, 2 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
12. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.1-1.49, 1.77, 1.102-1.135, 1.146-1.216, 1.224, 1.227-1.231, 1.249, 1.251-1.397, 1.418-1.583, 1.596, 1.599-1.634, 1.1106-1.1108, 1.1114-1.1117, 2.67-2.79, 2.81, 2.168, 2.172, 2.184-2.293, 2.434-2.435, 2.522-2.580, 2.589-2.652, 2.655-2.659, 2.700-2.729, 2.991-2.1022, 2.1030-2.1039, 2.1041-2.1057, 2.1059-2.1062, 2.1090-2.1117, 2.1122-2.1145, 2.1150-2.1174, 3.1-3.2, 3.25, 3.28-3.29, 3.94-3.101, 3.105, 3.110, 3.116-3.120, 3.128-3.129, 3.417, 3.445-3.458, 3.670-3.678, 3.687, 3.719-3.721, 3.746-3.747, 3.781, 3.935-3.939, 3.964-3.971, 3.1003, 3.1024, 3.1045, 3.1090-3.1094, 4.35-4.41, 4.43, 4.733-4.734, 4.751-4.770, 4.1286-4.1287, 5.90, 5.110-5.125, 5.136, 5.146-5.147, 5.215, 5.229-5.230, 5.249-5.254, 5.261-5.283, 5.309-5.310, 5.345-5.347, 5.351-5.369, 5.373-5.406, 5.416-5.508, 5.526-5.530, 5.680-5.706, 5.727-5.750, 5.780, 5.783-5.1457, 6.1-6.6, 6.24-6.34, 6.66, 6.70, 6.96-6.422, 6.535-6.607, 6.616-6.622, 6.639-6.711, 6.1090-6.1097, 6.1117-6.1124, 6.1132, 6.1138-6.1286 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
13. Epicurus, Letters, 115-116, 85-88, 99-100
14. Epicurus, Letters, 115-116, 85-88, 99-100
15. Vergil, Aeneis, 1.603-1.605, 2.428, 8.327 1.603. or with the flowing honey storing close 1.604. the pliant cells, until they quite run o'er 1.605. with nectared sweet; while from the entering swarm 2.428. defensive gather. Frenzy and vast rage 8.327. which gods abhor; and to the realms on high
16. Vergil, Eclogues, 1.1, 4.22 1.1. You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopy 4.22. reign o'er a world at peace. For thee, O boy
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Vergil, Georgics, 1.1-1.42, 1.50, 1.60-1.63, 1.84-1.93, 1.100, 1.118-1.124, 1.127, 1.129-1.130, 1.133-1.134, 1.141-1.142, 1.145-1.146, 1.176-1.186, 1.199-1.200, 1.229, 1.233-1.249, 1.257, 1.276, 1.278-1.283, 1.316-1.334, 1.338, 1.351-1.355, 1.401-1.404, 1.410-1.423, 1.425-1.435, 1.439, 1.446-1.447, 1.463-1.508, 1.510-1.514, 2.10-2.21, 2.23-2.24, 2.28-2.34, 2.45-2.46, 2.54-2.56, 2.60-2.64, 2.70, 2.73-2.82, 2.103-2.108, 2.136-2.176, 2.207-2.211, 2.278, 2.323-2.345, 2.397, 2.412, 2.455, 2.458-2.460, 2.467-2.486, 2.490-2.492, 2.498, 2.501, 2.511, 2.514-2.516, 2.524, 2.527-2.538, 2.540, 3.3-3.12, 3.34, 3.89-3.100, 3.115-3.117, 3.152-3.153, 3.236, 3.244, 3.258-3.263, 3.266-3.269, 3.272-3.277, 3.299, 3.343-3.344, 3.347-3.383, 3.391-3.393, 3.440, 3.454-3.456, 3.468, 3.471, 3.475, 3.478-3.566, 4.1-4.50, 4.59-4.61, 4.67-4.116, 4.122, 4.125-4.130, 4.132-4.215, 4.217-4.280, 4.315, 4.321-4.326, 4.392-4.397, 4.448, 4.455, 4.464-4.466, 4.469-4.477, 4.481-4.484, 4.489, 4.495, 4.504-4.505, 4.510-4.515, 4.532, 4.534-4.558, 4.560-4.566 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;— 1.6. Such are my themes. O universal light 1.7. Most glorious! ye that lead the gliding year 1.8. Along the sky, Liber and Ceres mild 1.9. If by your bounty holpen earth once changed 1.10. Chaonian acorn for the plump wheat-ear 1.11. And mingled with the grape, your new-found gift 1.12. The draughts of Achelous; and ye Faun 1.13. To rustics ever kind, come foot it, Faun 1.14. And Dryad-maids together; your gifts I sing. 1.15. And thou, for whose delight the war-horse first 1.16. Sprang from earth's womb at thy great trident's stroke 1.17. Neptune; and haunter of the groves, for whom 1.18. Three hundred snow-white heifers browse the brakes 1.19. The fertile brakes of placeName key= 1.20. Thy native forest and Lycean lawns 1.21. Pan, shepherd-god, forsaking, as the love 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= 1.40. Before thee, and Tethys win thee to her son 1.41. With all her waves for dower; or as a star 1.42. Lend thy fresh beams our lagging months to cheer 1.50. Elysium's fields, and Proserpine not heed 1.60. And teach the furrow-burnished share to shine. 1.61. That land the craving farmer's prayer fulfils 1.62. Which twice the sunshine, twice the frost has felt; 1.63. Ay, that's the land whose boundless harvest-crop 1.84. By the ripe suns of summer; but if the earth 1.85. Less fruitful just ere Arcturus rise 1.86. With shallower trench uptilt it—'twill suffice; 1.87. There, lest weeds choke the crop's luxuriance, here 1.88. Lest the scant moisture fail the barren sand. 1.89. Then thou shalt suffer in alternate year 1.90. The new-reaped fields to rest, and on the plain 1.91. A crust of sloth to harden; or, when star 1.92. Are changed in heaven, there sow the golden grain 1.93. Where erst, luxuriant with its quivering pod 1.100. With refuse rich to soak the thirsty soil 1.118. Hales o'er them; from the far Olympian height 1.119. Him golden Ceres not in vain regards; 1.120. And he, who having ploughed the fallow plain 1.121. And heaved its furrowy ridges, turns once more 1.122. Cross-wise his shattering share, with stroke on stroke 1.123. The earth assails, and makes the field his thrall. 1.124. Pray for wet summers and for winters fine 1.127. No tilth makes placeName key= 1.129. Why tell of him, who, having launched his seed 1.130. Sets on for close encounter, and rakes smooth 1.133. And when the parched field quivers, and all the blade 1.134. Are dying, from the brow of its hill-bed 1.141. First tops the furrows? Why of him who drain 1.142. The marsh-land's gathered ooze through soaking sand 1.145. Holds all the country, whence the hollow dyke 1.146. Sweat steaming vapour? 1.176. And hem with hounds the mighty forest-glades. 1.177. Soon one with hand-net scourges the broad stream 1.178. Probing its depths, one drags his dripping toil 1.179. Along the main; then iron's unbending might 1.180. And shrieking saw-blade,—for the men of old 1.181. With wedges wont to cleave the splintering log;— 1.182. Then divers arts arose; toil conquered all 1.183. Remorseless toil, and poverty's shrewd push 1.184. In times of hardship. Ceres was the first 1.185. Set mortals on with tools to turn the sod 1.186. When now the awful groves 'gan fail to bear 1.199. Alack! thy neighbour's heaped-up harvest-mow 1.200. And in the greenwood from a shaken oak 1.229. Lest weeds arise, or dust a passage win 1.233. Or burrow for their bed the purblind moles 1.234. Or toad is found in hollows, and all the swarm 1.235. of earth's unsightly creatures; or a huge 1.236. Corn-heap the weevil plunders, and the ant 1.237. Fearful of coming age and penury. 1.238. Mark too, what time the walnut in the wood 1.239. With ample bloom shall clothe her, and bow down 1.240. Her odorous branches, if the fruit prevail 1.241. Like store of grain will follow, and there shall come 1.242. A mighty winnowing-time with mighty heat; 1.243. But if the shade with wealth of leaves abound 1.244. Vainly your threshing-floor will bruise the stalk 1.245. Rich but in chaff. Many myself have seen 1.246. Steep, as they sow, their pulse-seeds, drenching them 1.247. With nitre and black oil-lees, that the fruit 1.248. Might swell within the treacherous pods, and they 1.249. Make speed to boil at howso small a fire. 1.257. His arms to slacken, lo! with headlong force 1.276. Opens the year, before whose threatening front 1.278. For wheaten harvest and the hardy spelt 1.279. Thou tax the soil, to corn-ears wholly given 1.280. Let Atlas' daughters hide them in the dawn 1.281. The Cretan star, a crown of fire, depart 1.282. Or e'er the furrow's claim of seed thou quit 1.283. Or haste thee to entrust the whole year's hope 1.316. And when the first breath of his panting steed 1.317. On us the Orient flings, that hour with them 1.318. Red Vesper 'gins to trim his 'lated fires. 1.319. Hence under doubtful skies forebode we can 1.320. The coming tempests, hence both harvest-day 1.321. And seed-time, when to smite the treacherous main 1.322. With driving oars, when launch the fair-rigged fleet 1.323. Or in ripe hour to fell the forest-pine. 1.324. Hence, too, not idly do we watch the stars— 1.325. Their rising and their setting-and the year 1.326. Four varying seasons to one law conformed. 1.327. If chilly showers e'er shut the farmer's door 1.328. Much that had soon with sunshine cried for haste 1.329. He may forestall; the ploughman batters keen 1.330. His blunted share's hard tooth, scoops from a tree 1.331. His troughs, or on the cattle stamps a brand 1.332. Or numbers on the corn-heaps; some make sharp 1.333. The stakes and two-pronged forks, and willow-band 1.334. Amerian for the bending vine prepare. 1.338. Nay even on holy days some tasks to ply 1.351. Coeus, Iapetus, and Typhoeus fell 1.352. And those sworn brethren banded to break down 1.353. The gates of heaven; thrice, sooth to say, they strove 1.354. Ossa on placeName key= 1.355. Aye, and on Ossa to up-roll amain 1.401. Seen all the windy legions clash in war 1.402. Together, as to rend up far and wide 1.403. The heavy corn-crop from its lowest roots 1.404. And toss it skyward: so might winter's flaw 1.410. And with a great rain floods the smiling crops 1.411. The oxen's labour: now the dikes fill fast 1.412. And the void river-beds swell thunderously 1.413. And all the panting firths of Ocean boil. 1.414. The Sire himself in midnight of the cloud 1.415. Wields with red hand the levin; through all her bulk 1.416. Earth at the hurly quakes; the beasts are fled 1.417. And mortal hearts of every kindred sunk 1.418. In cowering terror; he with flaming brand 1.419. Athos , or Rhodope, or Ceraunian crag 1.420. Precipitates: then doubly raves the South 1.421. With shower on blinding shower, and woods and coast 1.422. Wail fitfully beneath the mighty blast. 1.423. This fearing, mark the months and Signs of heaven 1.425. And through what heavenly cycles wandereth 1.426. The glowing orb Cyllenian. Before all 1.427. Worship the Gods, and to great Ceres pay 1.428. Her yearly dues upon the happy sward 1.429. With sacrifice, anigh the utmost end 1.430. of winter, and when Spring begins to smile. 1.431. Then lambs are fat, and wines are mellowest then; 1.432. Then sleep is sweet, and dark the shadows fall 1.433. Upon the mountains. Let your rustic youth 1.434. To Ceres do obeisance, one and all; 1.435. And for her pleasure thou mix honeycomb 1.439. Attend it, and with shouts bid Ceres come 1.446. That bring the frost, the Sire of all himself 1.447. Ordained what warnings in her monthly round 1.463. oft, too, when wind is toward, the stars thou'lt see 1.464. From heaven shoot headlong, and through murky night 1.465. Long trails of fire white-glistening in their wake 1.466. Or light chaff flit in air with fallen leaves 1.467. Or feathers on the wave-top float and play. 1.468. But when from regions of the furious North 1.469. It lightens, and when thunder fills the hall 1.470. of Eurus and of Zephyr, all the field 1.471. With brimming dikes are flooded, and at sea 1.472. No mariner but furls his dripping sails. 1.473. Never at unawares did shower annoy: 1.474. Or, as it rises, the high-soaring crane 1.475. Flee to the vales before it, with face 1.476. Upturned to heaven, the heifer snuffs the gale 1.477. Through gaping nostrils, or about the mere 1.478. Shrill-twittering flits the swallow, and the frog 1.479. Crouch in the mud and chant their dirge of old. 1.480. oft, too, the ant from out her inmost cells 1.481. Fretting the narrow path, her eggs conveys; 1.482. Or the huge bow sucks moisture; or a host 1.483. of rooks from food returning in long line 1.484. Clamour with jostling wings. Now mayst thou see 1.485. The various ocean-fowl and those that pry 1.486. Round Asian meads within thy fresher-pools 1.487. Cayster, as in eager rivalry 1.488. About their shoulders dash the plenteous spray 1.489. Now duck their head beneath the wave, now run 1.490. Into the billows, for sheer idle joy 1.491. of their mad bathing-revel. Then the crow 1.492. With full voice, good-for-naught, inviting rain 1.493. Stalks on the dry sand mateless and alone. 1.494. Nor e'en the maids, that card their nightly task 1.495. Know not the storm-sign, when in blazing crock 1.496. They see the lamp-oil sputtering with a growth 1.497. of mouldy snuff-clots. 1.498. So too, after rain 1.499. Sunshine and open skies thou mayst forecast 1.500. And learn by tokens sure, for then nor dimmed 1.501. Appear the stars' keen edges, nor the moon 1.502. As borrowing of her brother's beams to rise 1.503. Nor fleecy films to float along the sky. 1.504. Not to the sun's warmth then upon the shore 1.505. Do halcyons dear to Thetis ope their wings 1.506. Nor filthy swine take thought to toss on high 1.507. With scattering snout the straw-wisps. But the cloud 1.508. Seek more the vales, and rest upon the plain 1.510. Watching the sunset plies her 'lated song. 1.511. Distinct in clearest air is Nisus seen 1.512. Towering, and Scylla for the purple lock 1.513. Pays dear; for whereso, as she flies, her wing 1.514. The light air winnow, lo! fierce, implacable 2.10. And stripped of buskin stain thy bared limb 2.11. In the new must with me. 2.12. First, nature's law 2.13. For generating trees is manifold; 2.14. For some of their own force spontaneous spring 2.15. No hand of man compelling, and posse 2.16. The plains and river-windings far and wide 2.17. As pliant osier and the bending broom 2.18. Poplar, and willows in wan companie 2.19. With green leaf glimmering gray; and some there be 2.20. From chance-dropped seed that rear them, as the tall 2.21. Chestnuts, and, mightiest of the branching wood 2.23. Deemed by the Greeks of old. With some sprouts forth 2.24. A forest of dense suckers from the root 2.28. Nature imparted first; hence all the race 2.29. of forest-trees and shrubs and sacred grove 2.30. Springs into verdure. Other means there are 2.31. Which use by method for itself acquired. 2.32. One, sliving suckers from the tender frame 2.33. of the tree-mother, plants them in the trench; 2.34. One buries the bare stumps within his field 2.45. Pear-tree transformed the ingrafted apple yield 2.46. And stony cornels on the plum-tree blush. 2.54. I am bound on, O my glory, O thou that art 2.55. Justly the chiefest portion of my fame 2.56. Maecenas, and on this wide ocean launched 2.60. Were mine, a voice of iron; be thou at hand 2.61. Skirt but the nearer coast-line; see the shore 2.62. Is in our grasp; not now with feigned song 2.63. Through winding bouts and tedious preluding 2.64. Shall I detain thee. 2.70. To well-drilled trenches, will anon put of 2.73. To follow. So likewise will the barren shaft 2.74. That from the stock-root issueth, if it be 2.75. Set out with clear space amid open fields: 2.76. Now the tree-mother's towering leaves and bough 2.77. Darken, despoil of increase as it grows 2.78. And blast it in the bearing. Lastly, that 2.79. Which from shed seed ariseth, upward win 2.80. But slowly, yielding promise of its shade 2.81. To late-born generations; apples wane 2.82. Forgetful of their former juice, the grape 2.103. Wherein from some strange tree a germ they pen 2.104. And to the moist rind bid it cleave and grow. 2.105. Or, otherwise, in knotless trunks is hewn 2.106. A breach, and deep into the solid grain 2.107. A path with wedges cloven; then fruitful slip 2.108. Are set herein, and—no long time—behold! 2.136. But lo! how many kinds, and what their names 2.137. There is no telling, nor doth it boot to tell; 2.138. Who lists to know it, he too would list to learn 2.139. How many sand-grains are by Zephyr tossed 2.140. On placeName key= 2.141. With fury on the ships, how many wave 2.142. Come rolling shoreward from the Ionian sea. 2.143. Not that all soils can all things bear alike. 2.144. Willows by water-courses have their birth 2.145. Alders in miry fens; on rocky height 2.146. The barren mountain-ashes; on the shore 2.147. Myrtles throng gayest; Bacchus, lastly, love 2.148. The bare hillside, and yews the north wind's chill. 2.149. Mark too the earth by outland tillers tamed 2.150. And Eastern homes of Arabs, and tattooed 2.151. Geloni; to all trees their native land 2.152. Allotted are; no clime but placeName key= 2.153. Black ebony; the branch of frankincense 2.154. Is placeName key= 2.155. of balsams oozing from the perfumed wood 2.156. Or berries of acanthus ever green? 2.157. of Aethiop forests hoar with downy wool 2.158. Or how the Seres comb from off the leave 2.159. Their silky fleece? of groves which placeName key= 2.160. Ocean's near neighbour, earth's remotest nook 2.161. Where not an arrow-shot can cleave the air 2.162. Above their tree-tops? yet no laggards they 2.163. When girded with the quiver! Media yield 2.164. The bitter juices and slow-lingering taste 2.165. of the blest citron-fruit, than which no aid 2.166. Comes timelier, when fierce step-dames drug the cup 2.167. With simples mixed and spells of baneful power 2.168. To drive the deadly poison from the limbs. 2.169. Large the tree's self in semblance like a bay 2.170. And, showered it not a different scent abroad 2.171. A bay it had been; for no wind of heaven 2.172. Its foliage falls; the flower, none faster, clings; 2.173. With it the Medes for sweetness lave the lips 2.174. And ease the panting breathlessness of age. 2.175. But no, not Mede-land with its wealth of woods 2.176. Nor Ganges fair, and Hermus thick with gold 2.207. Or sing her harbours, and the barrier cast 2.208. Athwart the Lucrine, and how ocean chafe 2.209. With mighty bellowings, where the Julian wave 2.210. Echoes the thunder of his rout, and through 2.211. Avernian inlets pours the Tuscan tide? 2.278. Drinks moisture up and casts it forth at will 2.323. A glance will serve to warn thee which is black 2.324. Or what the hue of any. But hard it i 2.325. To track the signs of that pernicious cold: 2.326. Pines only, noxious yews, and ivies dark 2.327. At times reveal its traces. 2.328. All these rule 2.329. Regarding, let your land, ay, long before 2.330. Scorch to the quick, and into trenches carve 2.331. The mighty mountains, and their upturned clod 2.332. Bare to the north wind, ere thou plant therein 2.333. The vine's prolific kindred. Fields whose soil 2.334. Is crumbling are the best: winds look to that 2.335. And bitter hoar-frosts, and the delver's toil 2.336. Untiring, as he stirs the loosened glebe. 2.337. But those, whose vigilance no care escapes 2.338. Search for a kindred site, where first to rear 2.339. A nursery for the trees, and eke whereto 2.340. Soon to translate them, lest the sudden shock 2.341. From their new mother the young plants estrange. 2.342. Nay, even the quarter of the sky they brand 2.343. Upon the bark, that each may be restored 2.344. As erst it stood, here bore the southern heats 2.345. Here turned its shoulder to the northern pole; 2.397. Can they recover, and from the earth beneath 2.412. With quickening showers to his glad wife's embrace 2.455. From story up to story. 2.458. Forbear their frailty, and while yet the bough 2.459. Shoots joyfully toward heaven, with loosened rein 2.460. Launched on the void, assail it not as yet 2.467. Hedges too must be woven and all beast 2.468. Barred entrance, chiefly while the leaf is young 2.469. And witless of disaster; for therewith 2.470. Beside harsh winters and o'erpowering sun 2.471. Wild buffaloes and pestering goats for ay 2.472. Besport them, sheep and heifers glut their greed. 2.473. Nor cold by hoar-frost curdled, nor the prone 2.474. Dead weight of summer upon the parched crags 2.475. So scathe it, as the flocks with venom-bite 2.476. of their hard tooth, whose gnawing scars the stem. 2.477. For no offence but this to Bacchus bleed 2.478. The goat at every altar, and old play 2.479. Upon the stage find entrance; therefore too 2.480. The sons of Theseus through the country-side— 2.481. Hamlet and crossway—set the prize of wit 2.482. And on the smooth sward over oiled skin 2.483. Dance in their tipsy frolic. Furthermore 2.484. The Ausonian swains, a race from placeName key= 2.485. Make merry with rough rhymes and boisterous mirth 2.486. Grim masks of hollowed bark assume, invoke 2.490. Till hollow vale o'erflows, and gorge profound 2.491. Where'er the god hath turned his comely head. 2.492. Therefore to Bacchus duly will we sing 2.498. Hath needs beyond exhausting; the whole soil 2.501. The whole plantation lightened of its leaves. 2.511. And burn the refuse-branches, first to house 2.514. Twice weeds with stifling briers o'ergrow the crop; 2.515. And each a toilsome labour. Do thou praise 2.516. Broad acres, farm but few. Rough twigs beside 2.524. Still set thee trembling for the ripened grapes. 2.527. When once they have gripped the soil, and borne the breeze. 2.528. Earth of herself, with hooked fang laid bare 2.529. Yields moisture for the plants, and heavy fruit 2.530. The ploughshare aiding; therewithal thou'lt rear 2.531. The olive's fatness well-beloved of Peace. 2.532. Apples, moreover, soon as first they feel 2.533. Their stems wax lusty, and have found their strength 2.534. To heaven climb swiftly, self-impelled, nor crave 2.535. Our succour. All the grove meanwhile no le 2.536. With fruit is swelling, and the wild haunts of bird 2.537. Blush with their blood-red berries. Cytisu 2.538. Is good to browse on, the tall forest yield 2.540. And shoot forth radiance. And shall men be loath 3.3. You, woods and waves Lycaean. All themes beside 3.4. Which else had charmed the vacant mind with song 3.5. Are now waxed common. of harsh Eurystheus who 3.6. The story knows not, or that praiseless king 3.7. Busiris, and his altars? or by whom 3.8. Hath not the tale been told of Hylas young 3.9. Latonian Delos and Hippodame 3.10. And Pelops for his ivory shoulder famed 3.11. Keen charioteer? Needs must a path be tried 3.12. By which I too may lift me from the dust 3.34. of gold and massive ivory on the door 3.89. Renew them still; with yearly choice of young 3.90. Preventing losses, lest too late thou rue. 3.91. Nor steeds crave less selection; but on those 3.92. Thou think'st to rear, the promise of their line 3.93. From earliest youth thy chiefest pains bestow. 3.94. See from the first yon high-bred colt afield 3.95. His lofty step, his limbs' elastic tread: 3.96. Dauntless he leads the herd, still first to try 3.97. The threatening flood, or brave the unknown bridge 3.98. By no vain noise affrighted; lofty-necked 3.99. With clean-cut head, short belly, and stout back; 3.100. His sprightly breast exuberant with brawn. 3.115. The heights of 3.116. Even him, when sore disease or sluggish eld 3.117. Now saps his strength, pen fast at home, and spare 3.152. To plump with solid fat the chosen chief 3.153. And designated husband of the herd: 3.236. Alternately to curve each bending leg 3.244. And rippling plains 'gin shiver with light gusts; 3.258. Whether on steed or steer thy choice be set. 3.259. Ay, therefore 'tis they banish bulls afar 3.260. To solitary pastures, or behind 3.261. Some mountain-barrier, or broad streams beyond 3.262. Or else in plenteous stalls pen fast at home. 3.263. For, even through sight of her, the female waste 3.266. With her sweet charms can lovers proud compel 3.267. To battle for the conquest horn to horn. 3.268. In Sila's forest feeds the heifer fair 3.269. While each on each the furious rivals run; 3.272. With mighty groaning; all the forest-side 3.273. And far placeName key= 3.274. Nor wont the champions in one stall to couch; 3.275. But he that's worsted hies him to strange clime 3.276. Far off, an exile, moaning much the shame 3.277. The blows of that proud conqueror, then love's lo 3.299. Never than then more fiercely o'er the plain 3.343. By shepherds truly named hippomanes 3.344. Hippomanes, fell stepdames oft have culled 3.347. As point to point our charmed round we trace. 3.348. Enough of herds. This second task remains 3.349. The wool-clad flocks and shaggy goats to treat. 3.350. Here lies a labour; hence for glory look 3.351. Brave husbandmen. Nor doubtfully know 3.352. How hard it is for words to triumph here 3.353. And shed their lustre on a theme so slight: 3.354. But I am caught by ravishing desire 3.355. Above the lone Parnassian steep; I love 3.356. To walk the heights, from whence no earlier track 3.357. Slopes gently downward to Castalia's spring. 3.358. Now, awful Pales, strike a louder tone. 3.359. First, for the sheep soft pencotes I decree 3.360. To browse in, till green summer's swift return; 3.361. And that the hard earth under them with straw 3.362. And handfuls of the fern be littered deep 3.363. Lest chill of ice such tender cattle harm 3.364. With scab and loathly foot-rot. Passing thence 3.365. I bid the goats with arbute-leaves be stored 3.366. And served with fresh spring-water, and their pen 3.367. Turned southward from the blast, to face the sun 3.368. of winter, when Aquarius' icy beam 3.369. Now sinks in showers upon the parting year. 3.370. These too no lightlier our protection claim 3.371. Nor prove of poorer service, howsoe'er 3.372. Milesian fleeces dipped in Tyrian red 3.373. Repay the barterer; these with offspring teem 3.374. More numerous; these yield plenteous store of milk: 3.375. The more each dry-wrung udder froths the pail 3.376. More copious soon the teat-pressed torrents flow. 3.377. Ay, and on Cinyps' bank the he-goats too 3.378. Their beards and grizzled chins and bristling hair 3.379. Let clip for camp-use, or as rugs to wrap 3.380. Seafaring wretches. But they browse the wood 3.381. And summits of Lycaeus, and rough briers 3.382. And brakes that love the highland: of themselve 3.383. Right heedfully the she-goats homeward troop 3.391. Sends either flock to pasture in the glades 3.392. Soon as the day-star shineth, hie we then 3.393. To the cool meadows, while the dawn is young 3.440. Whole pools are turned; and on their untrimmed beard 3.454. Oak-logs and elm-trees whole, and fire them there 3.455. There play the night out, and in festive glee 3.456. With barm and service sour the wine-cup mock. 3.468. And seek some other o'er the teeming plain. 3.471. Snared and beguiled thee, placeName key= 3.475. With salt herbs to the cote, whence more they love 3.478. Many there be who from their mothers keep 3.479. The new-born kids, and straightway bind their mouth 3.480. With iron-tipped muzzles. What they milk at dawn 3.481. Or in the daylight hours, at night they press; 3.482. What darkling or at sunset, this ere morn 3.483. They bear away in baskets—for to town 3.484. The shepherd hies him—or with dash of salt 3.485. Just sprinkle, and lay by for winter use. 3.486. Nor be thy dogs last cared for; but alike 3.487. Swift Spartan hounds and fierce Molossian feed 3.488. On fattening whey. Never, with these to watch 3.489. Dread nightly thief afold and ravening wolves 3.490. Or Spanish desperadoes in the rear. 3.491. And oft the shy wild asses thou wilt chase 3.492. With hounds, too, hunt the hare, with hounds the doe; 3.493. oft from his woodland wallowing-den uprouse 3.494. The boar, and scare him with their baying, and drive 3.495. And o'er the mountains urge into the toil 3.496. Some antlered monster to their chiming cry. 3.497. Learn also scented cedar-wood to burn 3.498. Within the stalls, and snakes of noxious smell 3.499. With fumes of galbanum to drive away. 3.500. oft under long-neglected cribs, or lurk 3.501. A viper ill to handle, that hath fled 3.502. The light in terror, or some snake, that wont 3.503. 'Neath shade and sheltering roof to creep, and shower 3.504. Its bane among the cattle, hugs the ground 3.505. Fell scourge of kine. Shepherd, seize stakes, seize stones! 3.506. And as he rears defiance, and puffs out 3.507. A hissing throat, down with him! see how low 3.508. That cowering crest is vailed in flight, the while 3.509. His midmost coils and final sweep of tail 3.510. Relaxing, the last fold drags lingering spires. 3.511. Then that vile worm that in Calabrian glade 3.512. Uprears his breast, and wreathes a scaly back 3.513. His length of belly pied with mighty spots— 3.514. While from their founts gush any streams, while yet 3.515. With showers of Spring and rainy south-winds earth 3.516. Is moistened, lo! he haunts the pools, and here 3.517. Housed in the banks, with fish and chattering frog 3.518. Crams the black void of his insatiate maw. 3.519. Soon as the fens are parched, and earth with heat 3.520. Is gaping, forth he darts into the dry 3.521. Rolls eyes of fire and rages through the fields 3.522. Furious from thirst and by the drought dismayed. 3.523. Me list not then beneath the open heaven 3.524. To snatch soft slumber, nor on forest-ridge 3.525. Lie stretched along the grass, when, slipped his slough 3.526. To glittering youth transformed he winds his spires 3.527. And eggs or younglings leaving in his lair 3.528. Towers sunward, lightening with three-forked tongue. 3.529. of sickness, too, the causes and the sign 3.530. I'll teach thee. Loathly scab assails the sheep 3.531. When chilly showers have probed them to the quick 3.532. And winter stark with hoar-frost, or when sweat 3.533. Unpurged cleaves to them after shearing done 3.534. And rough thorns rend their bodies. Hence it i 3.535. Shepherds their whole flock steep in running streams 3.536. While, plunged beneath the flood, with drenched fell 3.537. The ram, launched free, goes drifting down the tide. 3.538. Else, having shorn, they smear their bodies o'er 3.539. With acrid oil-lees, and mix silver-scum 3.540. And native sulphur and Idaean pitch 3.541. Wax mollified with ointment, and therewith 3.542. Sea-leek, strong hellebores, bitumen black. 3.543. Yet ne'er doth kindlier fortune crown his toil 3.544. Than if with blade of iron a man dare lance 3.545. The ulcer's mouth ope: for the taint is fed 3.546. And quickened by confinement; while the swain 3.547. His hand of healing from the wound withholds 3.548. Or sits for happier signs imploring heaven. 3.549. Aye, and when inward to the bleater's bone 3.550. The pain hath sunk and rages, and their limb 3.551. By thirsty fever are consumed, 'tis good 3.552. To draw the enkindled heat therefrom, and pierce 3.553. Within the hoof-clefts a blood-bounding vein. 3.554. of tribes Bisaltic such the wonted use 3.555. And keen Gelonian, when to 3.556. He flies, or Getic desert, and quaffs milk 3.557. With horse-blood curdled. Seest one far afield 3.558. oft to the shade's mild covert win, or pull 3.559. The grass tops listlessly, or hindmost lag 3.560. Or, browsing, cast her down amid the plain 3.561. At night retire belated and alone; 3.562. With quick knife check the mischief, ere it creep 3.563. With dire contagion through the unwary herd. 3.564. Less thick and fast the whirlwind scours the main 3.565. With tempest in its wake, than swarm the plague 3.566. of cattle; nor seize they single lives alone 4.1. of air-born honey, gift of heaven, I now 4.2. Take up the tale. Upon this theme no le 4.3. Look thou, Maecenas, with indulgent eye. 4.4. A marvellous display of puny powers 4.5. High-hearted chiefs, a nation's history 4.6. Its traits, its bent, its battles and its clans 4.7. All, each, shall pass before you, while I sing. 4.8. Slight though the poet's theme, not slight the praise 4.9. So frown not heaven, and Phoebus hear his call. 4.10. First find your bees a settled sure abode 4.11. Where neither winds can enter (winds blow back 4.12. The foragers with food returning home) 4.13. Nor sheep and butting kids tread down the flowers 4.14. Nor heifer wandering wide upon the plain 4.15. Dash off the dew, and bruise the springing blades. 4.16. Let the gay lizard too keep far aloof 4.17. His scale-clad body from their honied stalls 4.18. And the bee-eater, and what birds beside 4.19. And Procne smirched with blood upon the breast 4.20. From her own murderous hands. For these roam wide 4.21. Wasting all substance, or the bees themselve 4.22. Strike flying, and in their beaks bear home, to glut 4.23. Those savage nestlings with the dainty prey. 4.24. But let clear springs and moss-green pools be near 4.25. And through the grass a streamlet hurrying run 4.26. Some palm-tree o'er the porch extend its shade 4.27. Or huge-grown oleaster, that in Spring 4.28. Their own sweet Spring-tide, when the new-made chief 4.29. Lead forth the young swarms, and, escaped their comb 4.30. The colony comes forth to sport and play 4.31. The neighbouring bank may lure them from the heat 4.32. Or bough befriend with hospitable shade. 4.33. O'er the mid-waters, whether swift or still 4.34. Cast willow-branches and big stones enow 4.35. Bridge after bridge, where they may footing find 4.36. And spread their wide wings to the summer sun 4.37. If haply Eurus, swooping as they pause 4.38. Have dashed with spray or plunged them in the deep. 4.39. And let green cassias and far-scented thymes 4.40. And savory with its heavy-laden breath 4.41. Bloom round about, and violet-beds hard by 4.42. Sip sweetness from the fertilizing springs. 4.43. For the hive's self, or stitched of hollow bark 4.44. Or from tough osier woven, let the door 4.45. Be strait of entrance; for stiff winter's cold 4.46. Congeals the honey, and heat resolves and thaws 4.47. To bees alike disastrous; not for naught 4.48. So haste they to cement the tiny pore 4.49. That pierce their walls, and fill the crevice 4.50. With pollen from the flowers, and glean and keep 4.59. But near their home let neither yew-tree grow 4.60. Nor reddening crabs be roasted, and mistrust 4.61. Deep marish-ground and mire with noisome smell 4.67. Forthwith they roam the glades and forests o'er 4.68. Rifle the painted flowers, or sip the streams 4.69. Light-hovering on the surface. Hence it i 4.70. With some sweet rapture, that we know not of 4.71. Their little ones they foster, hence with skill 4.72. Work out new wax or clinging honey mould. 4.73. So when the cage-escaped hosts you see 4.74. Float heavenward through the hot clear air, until 4.75. You marvel at yon dusky cloud that spread 4.76. And lengthens on the wind, then mark them well; 4.77. For then 'tis ever the fresh springs they seek 4.78. And bowery shelter: hither must you bring 4.79. The savoury sweets I bid, and sprinkle them 4.80. Bruised balsam and the wax-flower's lowly weed 4.81. And wake and shake the tinkling cymbals heard 4.82. By the great Mother: on the anointed spot 4.83. Themselves will settle, and in wonted wise 4.84. Seek of themselves the cradle's inmost depth. 4.85. But if to battle they have hied them forth— 4.86. For oft 'twixt king and king with uproar dire 4.87. Fierce feud arises, and at once from far 4.88. You may discern what passion sways the mob 4.89. And how their hearts are throbbing for the strife; 4.90. Hark! the hoarse brazen note that warriors know 4.91. Chides on the loiterers, and the ear may catch 4.92. A sound that mocks the war-trump's broken blasts; 4.93. Then in hot haste they muster, then flash wings 4.94. Sharpen their pointed beaks and knit their thews 4.95. And round the king, even to his royal tent 4.96. Throng rallying, and with shouts defy the foe. 4.97. So, when a dry Spring and clear space is given 4.98. Forth from the gates they burst, they clash on high; 4.99. A din arises; they are heaped and rolled 4.100. Into one mighty mass, and headlong fall 4.101. Not denselier hail through heaven, nor pelting so 4.102. Rains from the shaken oak its acorn-shower. 4.103. Conspicuous by their wings the chiefs themselve 4.104. Press through the heart of battle, and display 4.105. A giant's spirit in each pigmy frame 4.106. Steadfast no inch to yield till these or those 4.107. The victor's ponderous arm has turned to flight. 4.108. Such fiery passions and such fierce assault 4.109. A little sprinkled dust controls and quells. 4.110. And now, both leaders from the field recalled 4.111. Who hath the worser seeming, do to death 4.112. Lest royal waste wax burdensome, but let 4.113. His better lord it on the empty throne. 4.114. One with gold-burnished flakes will shine like fire 4.115. For twofold are their kinds, the nobler he 4.116. of peerless front and lit with flashing scales; 4.122. Spits forth the dry grit from his parched mouth: 4.125. Symmetric: this the likelier breed; from these 4.126. When heaven brings round the season, thou shalt strain 4.127. Sweet honey, nor yet so sweet as passing clear 4.128. And mellowing on the tongue the wine-god's fire. 4.129. But when the swarms fly aimlessly abroad 4.130. Disport themselves in heaven and spurn their cells 4.132. Must you refrain their volatile desires 4.133. Nor hard the task: tear off the monarchs' wings; 4.134. While these prove loiterers, none beside will dare 4.135. Mount heaven, or pluck the standards from the camp. 4.136. Let gardens with the breath of saffron flower 4.137. Allure them, and the lord of placeName key= 4.138. Priapus, wielder of the willow-scythe 4.139. Safe in his keeping hold from birds and thieves. 4.140. And let the man to whom such cares are dear 4.141. Himself bring thyme and pine-trees from the heights 4.142. And strew them in broad belts about their home; 4.143. No hand but his the blistering task should ply 4.144. Plant the young slips, or shed the genial showers. 4.145. And I myself, were I not even now 4.146. Furling my sails, and, nigh the journey's end 4.147. Eager to turn my vessel's prow to shore 4.148. Perchance would sing what careful husbandry 4.149. Makes the trim garden smile; of placeName key= 4.150. Whose roses bloom and fade and bloom again; 4.151. How endives glory in the streams they drink 4.152. And green banks in their parsley, and how the gourd 4.153. Twists through the grass and rounds him to paunch; 4.154. Nor of Narcissus had my lips been dumb 4.155. That loiterer of the flowers, nor supple-stemmed 4.156. Acanthus, with the praise of ivies pale 4.157. And myrtles clinging to the shores they love. 4.158. For 'neath the shade of tall Oebalia's towers 4.159. Where dark Galaesus laves the yellowing fields 4.160. An old man once I mind me to have seen— 4.161. From Corycus he came—to whom had fallen 4.162. Some few poor acres of neglected land 4.163. And they nor fruitful' neath the plodding steer 4.164. Meet for the grazing herd, nor good for vines. 4.165. Yet he, the while his meagre garden-herb 4.166. Among the thorns he planted, and all round 4.167. White lilies, vervains, and lean poppy set 4.168. In pride of spirit matched the wealth of kings 4.169. And home returning not till night was late 4.170. With unbought plenty heaped his board on high. 4.171. He was the first to cull the rose in spring 4.172. He the ripe fruits in autumn; and ere yet 4.173. Winter had ceased in sullen ire to rive 4.174. The rocks with frost, and with her icy bit 4.175. Curb in the running waters, there was he 4.176. Plucking the rathe faint hyacinth, while he chid 4.177. Summer's slow footsteps and the lagging West. 4.178. Therefore he too with earliest brooding bee 4.179. And their full swarms o'erflowed, and first was he 4.180. To press the bubbling honey from the comb; 4.181. Lime-trees were his, and many a branching pine; 4.182. And all the fruits wherewith in early bloom 4.183. The orchard-tree had clothed her, in full tale 4.184. Hung there, by mellowing autumn perfected. 4.185. He too transplanted tall-grown elms a-row 4.186. Time-toughened pear, thorns bursting with the plum 4.187. And plane now yielding serviceable shade 4.188. For dry lips to drink under: but these things 4.189. Shut off by rigorous limits, I pass by 4.190. And leave for others to sing after me. 4.191. Come, then, I will unfold the natural power 4.192. Great Jove himself upon the bees bestowed 4.193. The boon for which, led by the shrill sweet strain 4.194. of the Curetes and their clashing brass 4.195. They fed the King of heaven in Dicte's cave. 4.196. Alone of all things they receive and hold 4.197. Community of offspring, and they house 4.198. Together in one city, and beneath 4.199. The shelter of majestic laws they live; 4.200. And they alone fixed home and country know 4.201. And in the summer, warned of coming cold 4.202. Make proof of toil, and for the general store 4.203. Hoard up their gathered harvesting. For some 4.204. Watch o'er the victualling of the hive, and these 4.205. By settled order ply their tasks afield; 4.206. And some within the confines of their home 4.207. Plant firm the comb's first layer, Narcissus' tear 4.208. And sticky gum oozed from the bark of trees 4.209. Then set the clinging wax to hang therefrom. 4.210. Others the while lead forth the full-grown young 4.211. Their country's hope, and others press and pack 4.212. The thrice repured honey, and stretch their cell 4.213. To bursting with the clear-strained nectar sweet. 4.214. Some, too, the wardship of the gates befalls 4.215. Who watch in turn for showers and cloudy skies 4.217. Or form a band and from their precincts drive 4.218. The drones, a lazy herd. How glows the work! 4.219. How sweet the honey smells of perfumed thyme 4.220. Like the Cyclopes, when in haste they forge 4.221. From the slow-yielding ore the thunderbolts 4.222. Some from the bull's-hide bellows in and out 4.223. Let the blasts drive, some dip i' the water-trough 4.224. The sputtering metal: with the anvil's weight 4.225. Groans placeName key= 4.226. With giant strength uplift their sinewy arms 4.227. Or twist the iron with the forceps' grip— 4.228. Not otherwise, to measure small with great 4.229. The love of getting planted in their breast 4.230. Goads on the bees, that haunt old Cecrops' heights 4.231. Each in his sphere to labour. The old have charge 4.232. To keep the town, and build the walled combs 4.233. And mould the cunning chambers; but the youth 4.234. Their tired legs packed with thyme, come labouring home 4.235. Belated, for afar they range to feed 4.236. On arbutes and the grey-green willow-leaves 4.237. And cassia and the crocus blushing red 4.238. Glue-yielding limes, and hyacinths dusky-eyed. 4.239. One hour for rest have all, and one for toil: 4.240. With dawn they hurry from the gates—no room 4.241. For loiterers there: and once again, when even 4.242. Now bids them quit their pasturing on the plain 4.243. Then homeward make they, then refresh their strength: 4.244. A hum arises: hark! they buzz and buzz 4.245. About the doors and threshold; till at length 4.246. Safe laid to rest they hush them for the night 4.247. And welcome slumber laps their weary limbs. 4.248. But from the homestead not too far they fare 4.249. When showers hang like to fall, nor, east winds nigh 4.250. Confide in heaven, but 'neath the city wall 4.251. Safe-circling fetch them water, or essay 4.252. Brief out-goings, and oft weigh-up tiny stones 4.253. As light craft ballast in the tossing tide 4.254. Wherewith they poise them through the cloudy vast. 4.255. This law of life, too, by the bees obeyed 4.256. Will move thy wonder, that nor sex with sex 4.257. Yoke they in marriage, nor yield their limbs to love 4.258. Nor know the pangs of labour, but alone 4.259. From leaves and honied herbs, the mothers, each 4.260. Gather their offspring in their mouths, alone 4.261. Supply new kings and pigmy commonwealth 4.262. And their old court and waxen realm repair. 4.263. oft, too, while wandering, against jagged stone 4.264. Their wings they fray, and 'neath the burden yield 4.265. Their liberal lives: so deep their love of flowers 4.266. So glorious deem they honey's proud acquist. 4.267. Therefore, though each a life of narrow span 4.268. Ne'er stretched to summers more than seven, befalls 4.269. Yet deathless doth the race endure, and still 4.270. Perennial stands the fortune of their line 4.271. From grandsire unto grandsire backward told. 4.272. Moreover, not placeName key= 4.273. of boundless placeName key= 4.274. Nor Median Hydaspes, to their king 4.275. Do such obeisance: lives the king unscathed 4.276. One will inspires the million: is he dead 4.277. Snapt is the bond of fealty; they themselve 4.278. Ravage their toil-wrought honey, and rend amain 4.279. Their own comb's waxen trellis. He is the lord 4.280. of all their labour; him with awful eye 4.315. Or cut the empty wax away? for oft 4.321. Or spider, victim of Minerva's spite 4.322. Athwart the doorway hangs her swaying net. 4.323. The more impoverished they, the keenlier all 4.324. To mend the fallen fortunes of their race 4.325. Will nerve them, fill the cells up, tier on tier 4.326. And weave their granaries from the rifled flowers. 4.392. When first the west winds bid the waters flow 4.393. Ere flush the meadows with new tints, and ere 4.394. The twittering swallow buildeth from the beams. 4.395. Meanwhile the juice within his softened bone 4.396. Heats and ferments, and things of wondrous birth 4.397. Footless at first, anon with feet and wings 4.448. Smote on his mother's ears the mournful plaint 4.455. Even Aristaeus, thy heart's fondest care 4.464. Arched mountain-wise closed round him, and within 4.465. Its mighty bosom welcomed, and let speed 4.466. To the deep river-bed. And now, with eye 4.469. And echoing groves, he went, and, stunned by that 4.470. Stupendous whirl of waters, separate saw 4.471. All streams beneath the mighty earth that glide 4.472. Phasis and Lycus, and that fountain-head 4.473. Whence first the deep Enipeus leaps to light 4.474. Whence father placeName key= 4.475. And Hypanis that roars amid his rocks 4.476. And Mysian Caicus, and, bull-browed 4.477. 'Twixt either gilded horn, placeName key= 4.481. Was gained, and now Cyrene from her son 4.482. Had heard his idle weeping, in due course 4.483. Clear water for his hands the sisters bring 4.484. With napkins of shorn pile, while others heap 4.489. “Pour we to Ocean.” Ocean, sire of all 4.495. “In Neptune's gulf Carpathian dwells a seer 4.504. And loathly sea-calves 'neath the surge he feeds. 4.505. Him first, my son, behoves thee seize and bind 4.510. With rigorous force and fetters; against these 4.511. His wiles will break and spend themselves in vain. 4.512. I, when the sun has lit his noontide fires 4.513. When the blades thirst, and cattle love the shade 4.514. Myself will guide thee to the old man's haunt 4.515. Whither he hies him weary from the waves 4.532. Breathed effluence sweet, and a lithe vigour leapt 4.534. Scooped in the mountain-side, where wave on wave 4.535. By the wind's stress is driven, and breaks far up 4.536. Its inmost creeks—safe anchorage from of old 4.537. For tempest-taken mariners: therewithin 4.538. Behind a rock's huge barrier, Proteus hides. 4.539. Here in close covert out of the sun's eye 4.540. The youth she places, and herself the while 4.541. Swathed in a shadowy mist stands far aloof. 4.542. And now the ravening dog-star that burns up 4.543. The thirsty Indians blazed in heaven; his course 4.544. The fiery sun had half devoured: the blade 4.545. Were parched, and the void streams with droughty jaw 4.546. Baked to their mud-beds by the scorching ray 4.547. When Proteus seeking his accustomed cave 4.548. Strode from the billows: round him frolicking 4.549. The watery folk that people the waste sea 4.550. Sprinkled the bitter brine-dew far and wide. 4.551. Along the shore in scattered groups to feed 4.552. The sea-calves stretch them: while the seer himself 4.553. Like herdsman on the hills when evening bid 4.554. The steers from pasture to their stall repair 4.555. And the lambs' bleating whets the listening wolves 4.556. Sits midmost on the rock and tells his tale. 4.557. But Aristaeus, the foe within his clutch 4.558. Scarce suffering him compose his aged limbs 4.560. Forestalled him with the fetters; he nathless 4.561. All unforgetful of his ancient craft 4.562. Transforms himself to every wondrous thing 4.563. Fire and a fearful beast, and flowing stream. 4.564. But when no trickery found a path for flight 4.565. Baffled at length, to his own shape returned 4.566. With human lips he spake, “Who bade thee, then

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aeneid,,suspension in	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 129
aetiology	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 60
aetiology of labor	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 71, 79
aetna,mt.	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 160
amor,in georgics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 71
amor,in lucretius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 21
and proteus	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 143
animal	Faure (2022), Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity, 89
animals	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 216
animus,in lucretiuss epicurean theory of sight	Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 54
anthropomorphism	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 223
aratus	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 156
aristaeus and orpheus,,as new myth	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 181
aristaeus and orpheus	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 186
aristaeus epyllion	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 185
aristotle,,on bees	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 124
aristotle,,on primary opposites	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 173
ars	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 139, 140
asmis,e.	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 169, 171
athens	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 22
atomism	Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 54
atoms	Faure (2022), Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity, 89
bacchus	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 176
beehive,as paradigm for human society	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 49
bees,as golden age ideal	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 125, 126
bees,as morally flawed	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130
bees,as roman paradigm	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 123, 124
bees,in georgic	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130
bees,significance of	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 129, 130
bees	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 49
body-environment approach (bea),in lucretius epicurean theory of sight	Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 54
body (human),and knowledge acquisition/cognition	Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 54
bougonia ,as metaphor	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 147, 148
bougonia ,as myth	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 141
bougonia ,as paradox	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 140, 148
brutus,marcus	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 221, 223
caesar,octavian,and georgic poet (virgil)	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 188, 189
caesar,octavian,invoked in prayer	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 149
caesar,octavian,parallel to aristaeus	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 186
caesar,octavian,unknown future of	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 150, 151, 152
cato	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 148
centaurs	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 176
ceres	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 60
city,and corycian gardener	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 134
cognition	Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 54
columella	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 212
conington,j.	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 167
corycian gardener,and aristaeus and orpheus	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 134
corycian gardener,as apolitical	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 136
corycian gardener,as discrepant from golden age ideal	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 135, 136, 137
corycian gardener,as golden age figure	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 130, 131, 134
corycian gardener,as poet	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135
cosmogony,in greece	Bremmer (2008), Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East, 10
creation in greece'	Bremmer (2008), Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East, 10
culture and nature blended	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 223
cybele	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 217
cycle of growth and decay,in lucretius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 21, 22, 49
cyrene	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 143, 144, 187
dahlmann,h.	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 124
death,in lucretius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 21, 22, 49
death,in the georgics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 49
deucalion	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 60, 71; Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 176
didactic poetry,assumptions of	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 145
dionysus	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 221
dreams	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 22
earth	Faure (2022), Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity, 89
eclogues	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 189
emotion	Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 54
epicureanism	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 221, 223
epicurus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 21; Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 110, 153, 168, 169, 172, 177
euripides	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 221
eurydice	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 184
finales,in lucretius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 21, 22
fire	Faure (2022), Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity, 89
georgic poet,as artist	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 136, 137
georgic poet,as impotent in world of power	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 189
georgic poet,as maker of new myths	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 146, 181, 182, 183, 185
georgic poet,as poet of ambiguity and exchange	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190
georgic poet,courage of	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 187, 188
georgic poet,mission of pity and community	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 145
georgic poet,on plural causes	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 171, 172
georgic poet and caesar (octavian),,and nightingale	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 184
georgic poet and caesar (octavian),,and orpheus	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 183, 184, 185
georgic poet and caesar (octavian),,and other poet figures	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 148
georgic poet and caesar (octavian)	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 188, 189
georgics ,art in	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 136, 137
georgics ,as humane text	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 190
georgics ,beautiful and tragic in	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 187
georgics ,function of myth in	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183
georgics ,language of science in	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176
georgics ,moral role of gods in	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 163, 164, 165
georgics ,unresolved oppositions in	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 145, 185, 190
giants	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 181
glaucus	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 182
gods,in the georgics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 60, 71
golden age,art in	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 136
golden age,in georgic	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138
golden age,symbolic value of	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 137, 138
golden age	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 79, 80
grafting	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 212
harrison,e.l.	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 157, 164
heaven and earth	Bremmer (2008), Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East, 10
hero	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 177, 181
hesiod,allusions to	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 60
hesiod	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 60, 79
hieros gamos	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 71
hippocratic corpus	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 156
horace	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 116, 135
hyperbole	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 80, 216, 217
interior spaces,temples	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 221
intertextuality	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 71
iron age,and golden age	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 137, 138
iron age,and plague	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 120, 121
jove,and bees	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 125
jove,as punitive with lightning	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 181
jove,birth of	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 177
jupiter	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 71
jupiter best and greatest,temple of,interior	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 221
justice	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 113, 187
klingner,f.	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 131
la penna,a.	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 131
labor	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 60
laomedon	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 114
laudes italiae	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 216, 217
leander	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 177, 181
libyans as reflection on golden age ideals	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 119
literature,literary	Faure (2022), Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity, 89
lloyd,g.e.r.	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 156
lucretius,agriculture in	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 79, 80
lucretius,cycle of growth and decay in	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 21, 22, 49
lucretius,death in	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 21, 22, 49
lucretius,myth in	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 217
lucretius,on atoms (unseen particles)	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 175, 176
lucretius,on irregular occurrences	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 160
lucretius,on plague	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 162
lucretius,on plural causes	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 153, 168, 171, 172
lucretius,ridicules lightning as from jove	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 181
lucretius	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 221, 223
matter	Faure (2022), Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity, 89
metaphor	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 161
mind,in lucretius epicurean theory of sight	Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 54
monsters	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 217
muses,mystery	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148
muses,sources of truth	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 177
myth,in lucretius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 217
myth,in the georgics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 60, 217
myth,new myths	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 146, 181, 183
myth,unitary vision of	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 182, 183
nature	Faure (2022), Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity, 89
nature and culture,blended	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 223
nightingale,and orpheus	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 184
nisus	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 179
numinousness,conveyed in poetry	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 221, 223
numinousness,of nature	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 223
okeanos	Bremmer (2008), Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East, 10
olives	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 217
optimism	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 79
orpheus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 212; Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 177
orpheus and eurydice	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 177, 185, 186
page,t.c.	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 167, 187
paradox	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 140, 141, 148
parthenope	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 188
perception,lucretius epicurean theory of perception/the senses	Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 54
personification	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 71; Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 223
pessimism	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 79
plague,as reflection on golden age ideals in georgic	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123
plague,as representation of suffering of the guiltless	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 163, 164, 165
plague	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 21, 22
plants	Faure (2022), Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity, 89
pliny	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 212
plural causes	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172
portents,as divine signs	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162
portents,as metaphor	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 161
portents at death of	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162
praecepta and causae	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 187, 190
praise of spring	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 71
praises of country life,as reflection on conventional georgic ideology	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115
praises of spring,as reflection on golden age	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 109, 110, 111
praises of spring,as scientific analogue of golden age myth	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 109
prayer	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 79; Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 146, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152
primary opposites	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176
proems,in lucretius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 21, 22
proteus	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 143, 144, 187
readers of georgics and ambiguity of text,,as moral community	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 190
readers of georgics and ambiguity of text,,learn pity	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 186
readers of georgics and ambiguity of text,,risk moral complacency	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 189
readers of georgics and ambiguity of text,,unmoved by bees and aristaeus' success"	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 185
religions,roman,lucretius	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 221, 223
religions,roman	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 221, 223
roman religion/polytheism	Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 54
ross,d. o.	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 71, 216
saturn	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 216
science,language of,and myth	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 152, 153
science,language of,for plural causes	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172
science,language of,for primary opposites	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176
science,language of,for sign theory	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166
scylla	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 179
scythians	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 116, 117, 118, 119
senses,in lucretius epicurean theory of sight	Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 54
senses,lucretius epicurean theory of the senses	Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 54
servius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 216
sextus empiricus	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 154, 155
signs,as disease symptoms	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166
signs,as portents	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162
signs,in the ancient world	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157
storms	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 71
technology,futility of	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 122, 123
tellus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 71
terminus	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 221
terra mater	Faure (2022), Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity, 89
tethys	Bremmer (2008), Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East, 10
theophrastus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 212
thomas,r.	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 157
thomas,r. f.	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 71, 216
titans	Bremmer (2008), Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East, 10
touch	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 223
trees	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 212
truth,georgic,and the poet's truth"	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146
truth,georgic,in signs and precepts	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 139, 145
truth,georgic poet's,as confirmed in history"	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 188, 189, 190
truth,georgic poet's,as grander than orpheus' truth"	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 188, 189, 190
truth,georgic poet's,expressed in myth,metaphor,and mystery"	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 145, 146, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183
varro	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 212
venus,and mars	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 221
venus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 21, 22, 71; Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 221; Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 183
virgil,and hesiod	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 60, 79
virgil,in the georgics	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 188, 189
virgil,reception of lucretius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 49, 79, 80
wilkinson,l.p.	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 109, 168
wine	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 217
winnington-ingram,r.p.	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 164
zoogony	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 71, 217