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Vergil, Georgics, 1.118-1.148
Nec tamen, haec cum sint hominumque boumque labores Hales o'er them; from the far Olympian height
versando terram experti, nihil inprobus anser Him golden Ceres not in vain regards;
Strymoniaeque grues et amaris intiba fibris And he, who having ploughed the fallow plain
officiunt aut umbra nocet. Pater ipse colendi And heaved its furrowy ridges, turns once more
haud facilem esse viam voluit, primusque per artem Cross-wise his shattering share, with stroke on stroke
movit agros curis acuens mortalia corda The earth assails, and makes the field his thrall.
nec torpere gravi passus sua regna veterno. Pray for wet summers and for winters fine
Ante Iovem nulli subigebant arva coloni; Ye husbandmen; in winter's dust the crop
ne signare quidem aut partiri limite campum Exceedingly rejoice, the field hath joy;
fas erat: in medium quaerebant ipsaque tellus No tilth makes
omnia liberius nullo poscente ferebat. Nor Gargarus his own harvests so admire.
Ille malum virus serpentibus addidit atris Why tell of him, who, having launched his seed
praedarique lupos iussit pontumque moveri Sets on for close encounter, and rakes smooth
mellaque decussit foliis ignemque removit The dry dust hillocks, then on the tender corn
et passim rivis currentia vina repressit Lets in the flood, whose waters follow fain;
ut varias usus meditando extunderet artis And when the parched field quivers, and all the blade
paulatim et sulcis frumenti quaereret herbam. Are dying, from the brow of its hill-bed
Ut silicis venis abstrusum excuderet ignem. See! see! he lures the runnel; down it falls
Tunc alnos primum fluvii sensere cavatas; Waking hoarse murmurs o'er the polished stones
navita tum stellis numeros et nomina fecit And with its bubblings slakes the thirsty fields?
Pleiadas, Hyadas, claramque Lycaonis Arcton; Or why of him, who lest the heavy ear
tum laqueis captare feras et fallere visco O'erweigh the stalk, while yet in tender blade
inventum et magnos canibus circumdare saltus; Feeds down the crop's luxuriance, when its growth
atque alius latum funda iam verberat amnem First tops the furrows? Why of him who drain
alta petens, pelagoque alius trahit humida lina; The marsh-land's gathered ooze through soaking sand
tum ferri rigor atque argutae lamina serrae,— Chiefly what time in treacherous moons a stream
nam primi cuneis scindebant fissile lignum Goes out in spate, and with its coat of slime
tum variae venere artes. Labor omnia vicit Holds all the country, whence the hollow dyke
inprobus et duris urgens in rebus egestas. Sweat steaming vapour?
Prima Ceres ferro mortalis vertere terram But no whit the more
instituit, cum iam glandes atque arbuta sacrae For all expedients tried and travail borne

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1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 11, 110-119, 12, 120, 13-20, 202-209, 21, 210-212, 22-26, 299-301, 311, 42-46, 465-478, 50, 109 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 109. Filling both land and sea, while every day
2. Homer, Iliad, 21.257-21.262 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 21.257. /the bronze rang terribly, while he swerved from beneath the flood and fled ever onward, and the River followed after, flowing with a mighty roar. As when a man that guideth its flow leadeth from a dusky spring a stream of water amid his plants and garden-lots a mattock in his hands and cleareth away the dams from the channel— 21.258. /the bronze rang terribly, while he swerved from beneath the flood and fled ever onward, and the River followed after, flowing with a mighty roar. As when a man that guideth its flow leadeth from a dusky spring a stream of water amid his plants and garden-lots a mattock in his hands and cleareth away the dams from the channel— 21.259. /the bronze rang terribly, while he swerved from beneath the flood and fled ever onward, and the River followed after, flowing with a mighty roar. As when a man that guideth its flow leadeth from a dusky spring a stream of water amid his plants and garden-lots a mattock in his hands and cleareth away the dams from the channel— 21.260. /and as it floweth all the pebbles beneath are swept along therewith, and it glideth swiftly onward with murmuring sound down a sloping place and outstrippeth even him that guideth it;—even thus did the flood of the River 21.261. /and as it floweth all the pebbles beneath are swept along therewith, and it glideth swiftly onward with murmuring sound down a sloping place and outstrippeth even him that guideth it;—even thus did the flood of the River 21.262. /and as it floweth all the pebbles beneath are swept along therewith, and it glideth swiftly onward with murmuring sound down a sloping place and outstrippeth even him that guideth it;—even thus did the flood of the River
3. Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, 1024 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1024. φρένες δύσαρκτοι· πρὸς δὲ καρδίᾳ φόβος
4. Pindar, Pythian Odes, 10.65 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
5. Callimachus, Aetia, 1.25-1.28 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
6. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 4.445 (3rd cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 4.445. σχέτλιʼ Ἔρως, μέγα πῆμα, μέγα στύγος ἀνθρώποισιν
7. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 2.87, 2.161 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 2.87. Let someone therefore prove that it could have been better. But no one will ever prove this, and anyone who essays to improve some detail will either make it worse or will be demanding an improvement impossible in the nature of things. "But if the structure of the world in all its parts is such that it could not have been better whether in point of utility or beauty, let us consider js is the result of chance, or whether on the contrary the parts of the world are in such a condition that they could not possibly have cohered together if they were not controlled by intelligence and by divine providence. If then that produces of nature are better than those of art, and if art produces nothing without reason, nature too cannot be deemed to be without reason. When you see a statue or a painting, you recognize the exercise of art; when you observe from a distance the course of a ship, you do not hesitate to assume that its motion is guided by reason and by art; when you look at a sun‑dial or a water-clock, you infer that it tells the time by art and not by chance; how then can it be consistent to suppose that the world, which includes both the works of art in question, the craftsmen who made them, and everything else besides, can be devoid of purpose and of reason? 2.161. The great beasts of the forest again we take by hunting, both for food and in order to exercise ourselves in the mimic warfare of the chase, and also, as in the case of elephants, to train and discipline them for our employment, and to procure from their busy a variety of medicines for diseases and wounds, as also we do from certain roots and herbs whose values we have learnt by long-continued use and trial. Let the mind's eye survey the whole earth and all the seas, and you will behold now fruitful plains of measureless extent and mountains thickly clad with forests and pastures filled with flocks, now vessels sailing with marvellous swiftness across the sea.
8. Cicero, On Duties, 1.11-1.13, 2.17 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 1.11. Principio generi animantium omni est a natura tributum, ut se, vitam corpusque tueatur, declinet ea, quae nocitura videantur, omniaque, quae sint ad vivendum necessaria, anquirat et paret, ut pastum, ut latibula, ut alia generis eiusdem. Commune item animantium omnium est coniunctionis adpetitus procreandi causa et cura quaedam eorum, quae procreata sint; sed inter hominem et beluam hoc maxime interest, quod haec tantum, quantum sensu movetur, ad id solum, quod adest quodque praesens est, se accommodat paulum admodum sentiens praeteritum aut futurum; homo autem, quod rationis est particeps, per quam consequentia cernit, causas rerum videt earumque praegressus et quasi antecessiones non ignorat, similitudines comparat rebusque praesentibus adiungit atque annectit futuras, facile totius vitae cursum videt ad eamque degendam praeparat res necessarias. 1.12. Eademque natura vi rationis hominem conciliat homini et ad orationis et ad vitae societatem ingeneratque in primis praecipuum quendam amorem in eos, qui procreati sunt, impellitque, ut hominum coetus et celebrationes et esse et a se obiri velit ob easque causas studeat parare ea, quae suppeditent ad cultum et ad victum, nec sibi soli, sed coniugi, liberis ceterisque, quos caros habeat tuerique debeat; quae cura exsuscitat etiam animos et maiores ad rem gerendam facit. 1.13. In primisque hominis est propria veri inquisitio atque investigatio. Itaque cum sumus necessariis negotiis curisque vacui, tum avemus aliquid videre, audire, addiscere cognitionemque rerum aut occultarum aut admirabilium ad beate vivendum necessariam ducimus. Ex quo intellegitur, quod verum, simplex sincerumque sit, id esse naturae hominis aptissimum. Huic veri videndi cupiditati adiuncta est appetitio quaedam principatus, ut nemini parere animus bene informatus a natura velit nisi praecipienti aut docenti aut utilitatis causa iuste et legitime imperanti; ex quo magnitudo animi exsistit humanarumque rerum contemptio. 2.17. Cum igitur hie locus nihil habeat dubitationis, quin homines plurimum hominibus et prosint et obsint, proprium hoc statuo esse virtutis, conciliare animos hominum et ad usus suos adiungere. Itaque, quae in rebus iimis quaeque in usu et tractatione beluarum fiunt utiliter ad hominum vitam, artibus ea tribuuntur operosis, hominum autem studia ad amplificationem nostrarum rerum prompta ac parata virorum praestantium sapientia et virtute excitantur. 2.17.  Since, therefore, there can be no doubt on this point, that man is the source of both the greatest help and the greatest harm to man, I set it down as the peculiar function of virtue to win the hearts of men and to attach them to one's own service. And so those benefits that human life derives from iimate objects and from the employment and use of animals are ascribed to the industrial arts; the cooperation of men, on the other hand, prompt and ready for the advancement of our interests, is secured through wisdom and virtue [in men of superior ability].
9. Cicero, Republic, 3.1 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 3.1. Non. 301M Est igitur quiddam turbulentum in hominibus singulis, quod vel exultat voluptate vel molestia frangitur.
10. Varro, On Agriculture, 1.18.7-1.18.8, 2.10.1 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
11. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.10-1.11, 1.67, 1.71, 1.111, 1.159-1.214, 1.250-1.261, 1.313-1.314, 1.932, 2.2, 2.7-2.8, 2.24-2.29, 2.56-2.58, 2.621, 2.629-2.630, 2.1150-2.1174, 3.1-3.2, 3.9, 3.18, 3.25-3.27, 3.41, 3.59-3.78, 3.88-3.90, 3.866, 4.7, 4.1099, 5.9-5.12, 5.14-5.21, 5.45-5.46, 5.114, 5.206-5.217, 5.233-5.234, 5.917, 5.923-5.926, 5.934, 5.939-5.942, 5.965, 5.1091-5.1104, 5.1165-5.1167, 5.1250-5.1251, 5.1266-5.1268, 5.1281-5.1349, 5.1361-5.1378, 5.1416, 5.1430, 5.1436-5.1442, 5.1452-5.1457, 6.36-6.38, 6.47, 6.396 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
12. Epictetus, Discourses, 1.24.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
13. Seneca The Younger, Letters, 90.7-90.14, 90.24-90.26 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
14. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.1.6 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 8.1.6. But he introduced as food the nuts of trees, not those of all trees but only the acorns of the edible oak. Some people have followed this diet so closely since the time of Pelasgus that even the Pythian priestess, when she forbade the Lacedaemonians to touch the land of the Arcadians, uttered the following verses:— In Arcadia are many men who eat acorns, Who will prevent you; though I do not grudge it you. It is said that it was in the reign of Pelasgus that the land was called Pelasgia.
15. Servius, In Vergilii Georgicon Libros, 1.7 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
16. Epicurus, Letters, 116, 115
17. Epicurus, Letters, 116, 115
18. Manilius, Astronomica, 1.61
19. Strabo, Geography, 15.1.64 15.1.64. He conversed with Calanus, one of these sophists, who accompanied the king to Persia, and died after the custom of his country, being placed on a pile of [burning] wood. When Onesicritus came, he was lying upon stones. Onesicritus approached, accosted him, and told him that he had been sent by the king, who had heard the fame of his wisdom, and that he was to give an account of his interview, if there were no objection, he was ready to listen to his discourse. When Calanus saw his mantle, head-covering, and shoes, he laughed, and said, 'Formerly, there was abundance everywhere of corn and barley, as there is now of dust; fountains then flowed with water, milk, honey, wine, and oil, but mankind by repletion and luxury became proud and insolent. Jupiter, indigt at this state of things, destroyed all, and appointed for man a life of toil. On the reappearance of temperance and other virtues, there was again an abundance of good things. But at present the condition of mankind approaches satiety and insolence, and there is danger lest the things which now exist should disappear.'When he had finished, he proposed to Onesicritus, if he wished to hear his discourse, to strip off his clothes, to lie down naked by him on the same stones, and in that manner to listen to him; while he was hesitating what to do, Mandanis, who was the oldest and wisest of the sophists, reproached Calanus for his insolence, although he censured such insolence himself. Mandanis called Onesicritus to him, and said, I commend the king, because, although he governs so large an empire, he is yet desirous of acquiring wisdom, for he is the only philosopher in arms that I ever saw; it would be of the greatest advantage, if those were philosophers who have the power of persuading the willing and of compelling the unwilling to learn temperance; but I am entitled to indulgence, if, when conversing by means of three interpreters, who, except the language, know no more than the vulgar, I am not able to demonstrate the utility of philosophy. To attempt it is to expect water to flow pure through mud.
20. Vergil, Aeneis, 1.205, 4.386, 4.412, 6.277, 7.46, 7.181-7.186, 7.601-7.623, 8.55, 8.325, 9.62, 10.727, 12.250, 12.261 1.205. a life to duty given, swift silence falls; 4.386. me bear on winged winds his high decree. 4.412. but carefully dissembling what emprise 6.277. Rustled in each light breeze. Aeneas grasped 7.46. Hail, Erato! while olden kings and thrones 7.181. news of the day at hand when they should build 7.182. their destined walls. So, with rejoicing heart 7.183. at such vast omen, they set forth a feast 7.184. with zealous emulation, ranging well 7.186. Soon as the morrow with the lamp of dawn 7.601. from where my sister-furies dwell! My hands 7.602. bring bloody death and war.” She spoke, and hurled 7.603. her firebrand at the hero, thrusting deep 7.604. beneath his heart her darkly smouldering flame. 7.605. Then horror broke his sleep, and fearful sweat 7.606. dripped from his every limb. He shrieked aloud 7.607. for arms; and seized the ready arms that lay 7.608. around his couch and hall. Then o'er his soul 7.609. the lust of battle and wild curse of war 7.610. broke forth in angry power, as when the flames 7.611. of faggots round the bubbling cauldron sing 7.612. and up the waters leap; the close-kept flood 7.613. brims over, streaming, foaming, breaking bound 7.614. and flings thick clouds in air. He, summoning 7.615. his chieftains, bade them on Latinus move 7.616. break peace, take arms, and, over Italy 7.617. their shields extending, to thrust forth her foe: 7.618. himself for Teucrian with Latin joined 7.619. was more than match. He called upon the gods 7.620. in witness of his vows: while, nothing loth 7.621. Rutulia's warriors rushed into array; 7.622. ome by his youth and noble beauty moved 8.55. has stilled its swollen wave. A sign I tell: 8.325. the riven earth should crack, and open wide 9.62. dappled with white he rode; a crimson plume 10.727. in shining vesture he, and glittering arms. 12.250. Father omnipotent, I call; on thee 12.261. unto Evander's city! From these plains
21. Vergil, Eclogues, 4.32-4.33, 10.75-10.76 4.32. die shall the treacherous poison-plant, and far 4.33. and wide Assyrian spices spring. But soon 10.75. Cydonian arrows from a Parthian bow.— 10.76. as if my madness could find healing thus
22. Vergil, Georgics, 1.1-1.23, 1.47, 1.50-1.52, 1.60-1.63, 1.74, 1.79, 1.84-1.93, 1.100, 1.104-1.106, 1.112-1.113, 1.119-1.148, 1.150-1.168, 1.176-1.186, 1.197-1.203, 1.218, 1.229, 1.233-1.249, 1.257, 1.270, 1.273-1.283, 1.291-1.294, 1.299, 1.316-1.334, 1.338, 1.351, 1.353, 1.415-1.423, 1.439, 1.493-1.497, 1.502, 1.508, 1.512-1.514, 2.39, 2.54-2.56, 2.61-2.64, 2.70, 2.114, 2.155-2.157, 2.211, 2.397, 2.405, 2.412, 2.417, 2.420, 2.458-2.494, 2.510, 2.514-2.516, 2.533, 2.537, 3.339-3.348, 4.3-4.6, 4.13, 4.43, 4.106, 4.149-4.152, 4.154-4.155, 4.177-4.178, 4.184-4.185, 4.205, 4.242, 4.251 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= 1.47. For neither Tartarus hopes to call thee king 1.50. Elysium's fields, and Proserpine not heed 1.51. Her mother's voice entreating to return— 1.52. Vouchsafe a prosperous voyage, and smile on thi 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 1.74. Iron from the naked Chalybs, castor rank 1.79. When old Deucalion on the unpeopled earth 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 1.104. oft, too, 'twill boot to fire the naked fields 1.105. And the light stubble burn with crackling flames; 1.106. Whether that earth therefrom some hidden strength 1.112. Or that it hardens more and helps to bind 1.113. The gaping veins, lest penetrating showers 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 1.125. Ye husbandmen; in winter's dust the crop 1.126. Exceedingly rejoice, the field hath joy; 1.127. No tilth makes placeName key= 1.128. Nor Gargarus his own harvests so admire. 1.129. Why tell of him, who, having launched his seed 1.130. Sets on for close encounter, and rakes smooth 1.131. The dry dust hillocks, then on the tender corn 1.132. Lets in the flood, whose waters follow fain; 1.133. And when the parched field quivers, and all the blade 1.134. Are dying, from the brow of its hill-bed 1.135. See! see! he lures the runnel; down it falls 1.136. Waking hoarse murmurs o'er the polished stones 1.137. And with its bubblings slakes the thirsty fields? 1.138. Or why of him, who lest the heavy ear 1.139. O'erweigh the stalk, while yet in tender blade 1.140. Feeds down the crop's luxuriance, when its growth 1.141. First tops the furrows? Why of him who drain 1.142. The marsh-land's gathered ooze through soaking sand 1.143. Chiefly what time in treacherous moons a stream 1.144. Goes out in spate, and with its coat of slime 1.145. Holds all the country, whence the hollow dyke 1.146. Sweat steaming vapour? 1.147. But no whit the more 1.148. For all expedients tried and travail borne 1.150. Do greedy goose and Strymon-haunting crane 1.151. And succory's bitter fibres cease to harm 1.152. Or shade not injure. The great Sire himself 1.153. No easy road to husbandry assigned 1.154. And first was he by human skill to rouse 1.155. The slumbering glebe, whetting the minds of men 1.156. With care on care, nor suffering realm of hi 1.157. In drowsy sloth to stagnate. Before Jove 1.158. Fields knew no taming hand of husbandmen; 1.159. To mark the plain or mete with boundary-line— 1.160. Even this was impious; for the common stock 1.161. They gathered, and the earth of her own will 1.162. All things more freely, no man bidding, bore. 1.163. He to black serpents gave their venom-bane 1.164. And bade the wolf go prowl, and ocean toss; 1.165. Shooed from the leaves their honey, put fire away 1.166. And curbed the random rivers running wine 1.167. That use by gradual dint of thought on thought 1.168. Might forge the various arts, with furrow's help 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 1.197. Prune with thy hook the dark field's matted shade 1.198. Pray down the showers, all vainly thou shalt eye 1.199. Alack! thy neighbour's heaped-up harvest-mow 1.200. And in the greenwood from a shaken oak 1.201. Seek solace for thine hunger. 1.202. Now to tell 1.203. The sturdy rustics' weapons, what they are 1.218. And share-beam with its double back they fix. 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 1.270. Aye, more than time to bend above the plough 1.273. Thee, too, Lucerne, the crumbling furrows then 1.274. Receive, and millet's annual care returns 1.275. What time the white bull with his gilded horn 1.276. Opens the year, before whose threatening front 1.277. Routed the dog-star sinks. But if it be 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 1.291. Pursue thy sowing till half the frosts be done. 1.292. Therefore it is the golden sun, his course 1.293. Into fixed parts dividing, rules his way 1.294. Through the twelve constellations of the world. 1.299. And black with scowling storm-clouds, and betwixt 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 1.353. The gates of heaven; thrice, sooth to say, they strove 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 1.439. Attend it, and with shouts bid Ceres come 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. 1.502. As borrowing of her brother's beams to rise 1.508. Seek more the vales, and rest upon the plain 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 2.39. Shrink to restore the topmost shoot to earth 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 2.61. 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 2.114. Fat olives, orchades, and radii 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 2.211. Avernian inlets pours the Tuscan tide? 2.397. Can they recover, and from the earth beneath 2.405. Comes the white bird long-bodied snakes abhor 2.412. With quickening showers to his glad wife's embrace 2.417. Then the boon earth yields increase, and the field 2.420. Face the new suns, and safely trust them now; 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 2.461. With keen-edged sickle, but let the leaves alone 2.462. Be culled with clip of fingers here and there. 2.463. But when they clasp the elms with sturdy trunk 2.464. Erect, then strip the leaves off, prune the boughs; 2.465. Sooner they shrink from steel, but then put forth 2.466. The arm of power, and stem the branchy tide. 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 2.487. Thee with glad hymns, O Bacchus, and to thee 2.488. Hang puppet-faces on tall pines to swing. 2.489. Hence every vineyard teems with mellowing fruit 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 2.493. Meet honour with ancestral hymns, and cate 2.494. And dishes bear him; and the doomed goat 2.510. Be first to dig the ground up, first to clear 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 2.533. Their stems wax lusty, and have found their strength 2.537. Blush with their blood-red berries. Cytisu 3.339. Not toward thy rising, Eurus, or the sun's 3.340. But westward and north-west, or whence up-spring 3.341. Black Auster, that glooms heaven with rainy cold. 3.342. Hence from their groin slow drips a poisonous juice 3.343. By shepherds truly named hippomanes 3.344. Hippomanes, fell stepdames oft have culled 3.345. And mixed with herbs and spells of baneful bode. 3.346. Fast flies meanwhile the irreparable hour 3.347. As point to point our charmed round we trace. 3.348. Enough of herds. This second task remains 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 4.13. Nor sheep and butting kids tread down the flowers 4.43. For the hive's self, or stitched of hollow bark 4.106. Steadfast no inch to yield till these or those 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 4.154. Nor of Narcissus had my lips been dumb 4.155. That loiterer of the flowers, nor supple-stemmed 4.177. Summer's slow footsteps and the lagging West. 4.178. Therefore he too with earliest brooding bee 4.184. Hung there, by mellowing autumn perfected. 4.185. He too transplanted tall-grown elms a-row 4.205. By settled order ply their tasks afield; 4.242. Now bids them quit their pasturing on the plain 4.251. Safe-circling fetch them water, or essay

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
achilles	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 254
aetiology	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 29, 206
aetiology of labor	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 8, 16, 39, 59, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 159, 161, 162, 252, 254
allusion	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 8, 16
amor,in georgics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 188
amor	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 62
animals,in lucretius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 206
animals	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 29, 101
anthropomorphism	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 101
aratus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 39, 59, 162
ataraxia	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 39
bacchus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 39
bees,as golden age ideal	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 125
bees,in georgic	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 125
bees	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 159
birds	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 255
callimachus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 252
cato	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 159
cattle	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 101
centaurs	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 29
cereal crops	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 159, 161, 252, 254, 255
ceres	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 29, 66, 67
city,as morally corrupt	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 104
city,as product of technology	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 104
columella	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 159, 255
conte,g. b.	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 8
cura	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 16, 101, 159, 161, 162
deification,of octavian	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 29
epicureanism	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 188, 252
epicurus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 29, 66, 162, 254
eris	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 63, 66
finales,book 1	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 188, 255
finales,book 2	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 8, 39, 67, 101, 188, 252
finales	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 8
gods,in lucretius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 59, 169, 254
gods,in the georgics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 29, 39, 59, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 169, 206, 252
golden age,in georgic	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 104, 125
golden age	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 8, 39, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 162, 206, 254
grafting	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 29
hesiod,allusions to	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 61, 62, 63, 161, 162, 252
hesiod	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 59, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67
heuretai	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 29, 66, 67
homer	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 161
homeric similes	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 254
horses	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 29, 101
iacchus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 67
imagery,chariots	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 188
imagery,military	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 16, 101, 161, 252, 254, 255
intertextuality	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 8, 16, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 161, 162
jove,and bees	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 125
jupiter	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 8, 16, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 161, 162, 169, 206, 254
labor,in hesiod	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 61, 62
labor,in lucretius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 161
labor,in the georgics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 159, 161, 162, 169, 188, 206, 252
labor	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 8, 16, 59, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67
liber	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 29
locus amoenus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 39
lucretius,agriculture in	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 29, 63, 64, 65, 66, 161, 206, 254
lucretius,animals in	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 206
lucretius,culture-history in	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 29, 63, 66
lucretius,gods in	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 59, 169, 254
lucretius,labor in	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 161
lucretius,laws of nature in	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 206
lucretius,natura in	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 66
lucretius,politics in	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 39
lucretius,religion in	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 63
metamorphosis	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 8
metus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 159, 169
monsters	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 8
muses	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 188
mynors,r. a. b.	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 169
mysteries	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 67
myth,in the georgics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 8, 206
natura	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 29, 66
neptune	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 29
octavian	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 29, 252
olives	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 169
optimism	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 161
orpheus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 159
otium	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 39, 252
pastoral	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 39, 161
personification	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 255
pessimism	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 254
pindar	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 188
plague	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 39
poetry and poetics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 8, 159, 188
politics,in lucretius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 39
politics,in the georgics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 39, 188
praises of italy,as problematic	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 104
prayer	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 61, 67
primitivism	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 29, 62
proems,in lucretius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 59
prometheus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 61, 62
providentialism	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 65, 66, 162, 206
religion,in lucretius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 63, 67
religion,in the georgics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 61, 67, 206
scha¨fer,s.	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 67
servius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 29
sheep	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 101
similes	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 254
sphragis	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 252
stoicism	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 62, 65, 66, 162
storms	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 16, 162, 169
technology,morally ambiguous	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 104
trees	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 159
triptolemus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 67
underworld	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 8
varro	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 159, 255
vines	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 169, 255
virgil,and aratus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 39, 59, 162
virgil,and hesiod	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 59, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 161, 162, 252
virgil,and homer	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 254
virgil,and octavian	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 252
war,and agriculture	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 252, 254, 255
war,civil war	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 252, 254, 255
war,in the georgics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 252, 254, 255
war,octavian as warrior	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 252
weather signs	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 59, 206
xenophanes	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 162
zeus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 61, 62, 161, 162
zoogony'	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 29