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Vergil, Georgics, 1.199-1.200


maxima quaeque manu legeret. Sic omnia fatisAlack! thy neighbour's heaped-up harvest-mow


in peius ruere ac retro sublapsa referriAnd in the greenwood from a shaken oak


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

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1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 203-212, 202 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

202. Might will be right and shame shall cease to be
2. Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, 1024 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1024. φρένες δύσαρκτοι· πρὸς δὲ καρδίᾳ φόβος
3. Pindar, Pythian Odes, 10.65 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

4. Aratus Solensis, Phaenomena, 46, 462-469, 47, 470-479, 48, 480-544, 45 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

45. τὰς δέ διʼ ἀμφοτέρας οἵη ποταμοῖο ἀπορρώξ
5. Callimachus, Aetia, 1.25-1.28 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

6. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 2.87 (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?
7. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.10-1.11, 1.159-1.214, 1.250-1.261, 1.313-1.314, 1.402-1.409, 2.1150-2.1174, 3.419, 5.195-5.234, 5.309-5.310, 5.826-5.836, 5.923-5.947, 5.953-5.954, 5.958-5.959, 5.961, 5.963, 5.966-5.999, 5.1001, 6.1, 6.47 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

8. Epicurus, Letters, 116, 115

9. Epicurus, Letters, 116, 115

10. Vergil, Eclogues, 4.21-4.22

4.21. be seen of them, and with his father's worth 4.22. reign o'er a world at peace. For thee, O boy
11. Vergil, Georgics, 1.14, 1.47, 1.50-1.52, 1.60-1.63, 1.74, 1.84-1.93, 1.100, 1.106, 1.113, 1.118-1.148, 1.150-1.160, 1.163, 1.168, 1.176-1.186, 1.191, 1.197-1.198, 1.200-1.203, 1.218, 1.229, 1.233-1.249, 1.257, 1.276-1.283, 1.291-1.294, 1.299, 1.316-1.334, 1.338, 1.351-1.355, 1.415-1.423, 1.425-1.426, 1.432, 1.439, 1.502, 1.507, 1.511-1.514, 2.54-2.56, 2.61-2.64, 2.70, 2.211, 2.405, 2.472-2.474, 2.496, 2.507, 2.510, 2.514-2.515, 2.524, 2.532-2.540, 3.97-3.98, 3.244, 3.313, 3.517-3.518, 3.525, 3.566, 4.491-4.492

1.14. And Dryad-maids together; your gifts I sing. 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 1.84. 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 1.106. Whether that earth therefrom some hidden strength 1.113. The gaping veins, lest penetrating showers 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 1.125. 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 1.163. He to black serpents gave their venom-bane 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 1.191. An idler in the fields; the crops die down; 1.197. Prune with thy hook the dark field's matted shade 1.198. Pray down the showers, all vainly thou shalt eye 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 1.276. 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 1.352. 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 1.415. 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 1.432. Then sleep is sweet, and dark the shadows fall 1.439. Attend it, and with shouts bid Ceres come 1.502. As borrowing of her brother's beams to rise 1.507. With scattering snout the straw-wisps. But the cloud 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 2.54. 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 2.211. Avernian inlets pours the Tuscan tide? 2.405. Comes the white bird long-bodied snakes abhor 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 2.496. Whose entrails rich on hazel-spits we'll roast. 2.507. Looks keenly forward to the coming year 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 2.524. Still set thee trembling for the ripened grapes. 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 2.539. Pine-torches, and the nightly fires are fed 2.540. And shoot forth radiance. And shall men be loath 3.97. The threatening flood, or brave the unknown bridge 3.98. By no vain noise affrighted; lofty-necked 3.244. And rippling plains 'gin shiver with light gusts; 3.313. Hardens each wallowing shoulder to the wound. 3.517. Housed in the banks, with fish and chattering frog 3.518. Crams the black void of his insatiate maw. 3.525. Lie stretched along the grass, when, slipped his slough 3.566. of cattle; nor seize they single lives alone 4.491. The hundred forests and the hundred streams; 4.492. Thrice Vesta's fire with nectar clear she dashed


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
aetiology Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 206
aetiology of labor Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 16, 59, 81
allusion Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 16
amor,in georgics Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 188
animals,in lucretius Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 206
aratus Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 59, 83
aristaeus and orpheus Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 39
cura Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 16
epicureanism Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 188
epicurus Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 82
eratosthenes Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 82
farmer,,morally ambiguous status of Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 39
farmer Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 39
finales,book 1 Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 188
finales,book 2 Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 188
fire Clay and Vergados (2022), Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry, 251
gigantomachy/giants Clay and Vergados (2022), Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry, 251
gods,in lucretius Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 59
gods,in the georgics Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 59, 81, 82, 83, 164, 206
golden age,in georgic Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 98, 114
golden age Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 81, 206
grafting Clay and Vergados (2022), Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry, 251
growth,spontaneous (wild) Clay and Vergados (2022), Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry, 251
hesiod Clay and Vergados (2022), Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry, 251; Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 59
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
intertextuality Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 16, 81, 82, 83
iron age,instituted by jove Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 98
iron age,moral ambiguity of Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 39
jove,and iron age Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 98
jupiter Clay and Vergados (2022), Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry, 251; Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 16, 83, 164, 206
justice Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 39
labor,in lucretius Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 164
labor,in the georgics Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 164, 188, 206
labor Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 16, 59
laomedon Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 114
lucretius,agriculture in Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 81, 82, 83, 206
lucretius,animals in Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 206
lucretius,gods in Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 59
lucretius,labor in Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 164
lucretius,laws of nature in Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 206
metus Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 164
muses Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 188
myth,in the georgics Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 206
nature Clay and Vergados (2022), Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry, 251
oak Clay and Vergados (2022), Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry, 251
olive Clay and Vergados (2022), Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry, 251
olympian Clay and Vergados (2022), Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry, 251
order' Clay and Vergados (2022), Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry, 251
pindar Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 188
poetry and poetics Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 188
politics,in the georgics Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 188
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, 114
proems,in lucretius Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 59
providentialism Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 81, 82, 83, 206
religion,in the georgics Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 164, 206
saturn Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 81
similes Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 81
storms Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 16, 164
technology,as central theme of georgics Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 98
virgil,and aratus Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 59, 83
virgil,and hesiod Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 59
virgil,reception of lucretius Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 81, 82, 83
weather signs Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 59, 164, 206
zeus Clay and Vergados (2022), Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry, 251; Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 83