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Vergil, Georgics, 2.136-2.176
sed neque Medorum, silvae ditissima, terra But lo! how many kinds, and what their names
nec pulcher Ganges atque auro turbidus Hermus There is no telling, nor doth it boot to tell;
laudibus Italiae certent, non Bactra neque Indi Who lists to know it, he too would list to learn
totaque turiferis Panchaia pinguis harenis. How many sand-grains are by Zephyr tossed
Haec loca non tauri spirantes naribus ignem On
invertere satis inmanis dentibus hydri With fury on the ships, how many wave
nec galeis densisque virum seges horruit hastis; Come rolling shoreward from the Ionian sea.
sed gravidae fruges et Bacchi Massicus humor Not that all soils can all things bear alike.
inplevere; tenent oleae armentaque laeta. Willows by water-courses have their birth
Hinc bellator equus campo sese arduus infert; Alders in miry fens; on rocky height
hinc albi, Clitumne, greges et maxima taurus The barren mountain-ashes; on the shore
victima, saepe tuo perfusi flumine sacro Myrtles throng gayest; Bacchus, lastly, love
Romanos ad templa deum duxere triumphos. The bare hillside, and yews the north wind's chill.
Hic ver adsiduum atque alienis mensibus aestas Mark too the earth by outland tillers tamed
bis gravidae pecudes, bis pomis utilis arbos. And Eastern homes of Arabs, and tattooed
At rabidae tigres absunt et saeva leonum Geloni; to all trees their native land
semina nec miseros fallunt aconita legentis Allotted are; no clime but
nec rapit inmensos orbis per humum neque tanto Black ebony; the branch of frankincense
squameus in spiram tractu se colligit anguis. Is
Adde tot egregias urbes operumque laborem Of balsams oozing from the perfumed wood
tot congesta manu praeruptis oppida saxis Or berries of acanthus ever green?
fluminaque antiquos subter labentia muros. Of Aethiop forests hoar with downy wool
An mare, quod supra, memorem, quodque adluit infra Or how the Seres comb from off the leave
anne lacus tantos? Te, Lari maxume, teque Their silky fleece? Of groves which
fluctibus et fremitu adsurgens Benace marino Ocean's near neighbour, earth's remotest nook
an memorem portus Lucrinoque addita claustra Where not an arrow-shot can cleave the air
atque indignatum magnis stridoribus aequor Above their tree-tops? yet no laggards they
Iulia qua ponto longe sonat unda refuso When girded with the quiver! Media yield
Tyrrhenusque fretis inmittitur aestus Avernis? The bitter juices and slow-lingering taste
Haec eadem argenti rivos aerisque metalla Of the blest citron-fruit, than which no aid
ostendit venis atque auro plurima fluxit. Comes timelier, when fierce step-dames drug the cup
Haec genus acre virum, Marsos pubemque Sabellam With simples mixed and spells of baneful power
adsuetumque malo Ligurem Volscosque verutos To drive the deadly poison from the limbs.
extulit, haec Decios, Marios, magnosque Camillos Large the tree's self in semblance like a bay
Scipiadas duros bello et te, maxume Caesar And, showered it not a different scent abroad
qui nunc extremis Asiae iam victor in oris A bay it had been; for no wind of heaven
inbellem avertis Romanis arcibus Indum. Its foliage falls; the flower, none faster, clings;
Salve, magna parens frugum, Saturnia tellus With it the Medes for sweetness lave the lips
magna virum; tibi res antiquae laudis et artem And ease the panting breathlessness of age.
ingredior, sanctos ausus recludere fontis But no, not Mede-land with its wealth of woods
Ascraeumque cano Romana per oppida carmen. Nor Ganges fair, and Hermus thick with gold

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1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 173, 175, 202-212, 639-640, 172 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 172. Live far from others. Thus they came to dwell
2. Hesiod, Theogony, 720 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 720. And be your allies in this dread discord
3. Homer, Iliad, 4.442-4.443, 8.16, 12.131-12.134 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 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 8.16. /far, far away, where is the deepest gulf beneath the earth, the gates whereof are of iron and the threshold of bronze, as far beneath Hades as heaven is above earth: then shall ye know how far the mightiest am I of all gods. Nay, come, make trial, ye gods, that ye all may know. Make ye fast from heaven a chain of gold 12.131. /and the other Leonteus, peer of Ares the bane of men. These twain before the high gate stood firm even as oaks of lofty crest among the mountains, that ever abide the wind and rain day by day, firm fixed with roots great and long; 12.132. /and the other Leonteus, peer of Ares the bane of men. These twain before the high gate stood firm even as oaks of lofty crest among the mountains, that ever abide the wind and rain day by day, firm fixed with roots great and long; 12.133. /and the other Leonteus, peer of Ares the bane of men. These twain before the high gate stood firm even as oaks of lofty crest among the mountains, that ever abide the wind and rain day by day, firm fixed with roots great and long; 12.134. /and the other Leonteus, peer of Ares the bane of men. These twain before the high gate stood firm even as oaks of lofty crest among the mountains, that ever abide the wind and rain day by day, firm fixed with roots great and long;
4. Homer, Odyssey, 4.567-4.568 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
5. Varro, On Agriculture, 1.2.3-1.2.7, 1.7.6, 3.16.4 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
6. Catullus, Poems, 68.70 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
7. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.117-1.119, 1.156-1.214, 1.250-1.264, 1.923, 1.926-1.950, 2.342-2.380, 2.589-2.651, 2.655-2.659, 2.993, 2.1030-2.1039, 3.316-3.318, 4.414-4.419, 5.186, 5.878-5.924, 5.999-5.1010, 5.1105-5.1160, 5.1241-5.1307, 5.1345, 5.1361-5.1378, 5.1403-5.1404, 6.654-6.655, 6.675-6.677, 6.712-6.737, 6.1141 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
8. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.107-1.108, 15.364-15.367 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
9. Propertius, Elegies, 3.22.17 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
10. Vitruvius Pollio, On Architecture, 6.1.10-6.1.11 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
11. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 3.40-3.42, 36.101, 37.202 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
12. Strabo, Geography, 6.4.1 6.4.1. Such, indeed, is the size and such the character of Italy. And while I have already mentioned many things which have caused the Romans at the present time to be exalted to so great a height, I shall now indicate the most important things. One is, that, like an island, Italy is securely guarded by the seas on all sides, except in a few regions, and even these are fortified by mountains that are hardly passable. A second is that along most of its coast it is harborless and that the harbors it does have are large and admirable. The former is useful in meeting attacks from the outside, while the latter is helpful in making counter-attacks and in promoting an abundant commerce. A third is that it is characterized by many differences of air and temperature, on which depend the greater variation, whether for better or for worse, in animals, plants, and, in short, everything that is useful for the support of life. Its length extends from north to south, generally speaking, and Sicily counts as an addition to its length, already so great. Now mild temperature and harsh temperature of the air are judged by heat, cold, and their intermediates; and so from this it necessarily follows that what is now Italy, situated as it is between the two extremes and extending to such a length, shares very largely in the temperate zone and in a very large number of ways. And the following is still another advantage which has fallen to the lot of Italy; since the Apennine Mountains extend through the whole of its length and leave on both sides plains and hills which bear fine fruits, there is no part of it which does not enjoy the blessings of both mountain and plain. And add also to this the size and number of its rivers and its lakes, and, besides these, the fountains of water, both hot and cold, which in many places nature has provided as an aid to health, and then again its good supply of mines of all sorts. Neither can one worthily describe Italy's abundant supply of fuel, and of food both for men and beast, and the excellence of its fruits. Further, since it lies intermediate between the largest races on the one hand, and Greece and the best parts of Libya on the other, it not only is naturally well-suited to hegemony, because it surpasses the countries that surround it both in the valor of its people and in size, but also can easily avail itself of their services, because it is close to them.
13. Vergil, Aeneis, 3.619-3.620, 3.678, 4.177, 10.767 3.619. on leaves inscribing the portentous song 3.620. he sets in order, and conceals them well 3.678. “Accept these gifts, sweet youth, memorials 4.177. hall scatter and be veiled in blinding dark 10.767. against Jove's thunder;—so Aeneas raged
14. Vergil, Eclogues, 2.45-2.55, 4.21-4.22, 4.24, 4.32, 4.39 2.45. ‘Mine once,’ quoth he, ‘now yours, as heir to own.’ 2.46. Foolish Amyntas heard and envied me. 2.47. Ay, and two fawns, I risked my neck to find 2.48. in a steep glen, with coats white-dappled still 2.49. from a sheep's udders suckled twice a day— 2.50. these still I keep for you; which Thestili 2.51. implores me oft to let her lead away; 2.52. and she shall have them, since my gifts you spurn. 2.53. Come hither, beauteous boy; for you the Nymph 2.54. bring baskets, see, with lilies brimmed; for you 2.55. plucking pale violets and poppy-heads 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 4.24. her childish gifts, the gadding ivy-spray 4.32. die shall the treacherous poison-plant, and far 4.39. and stubborn oaks sweat honey-dew. Nathle
15. Vergil, Georgics, 1.121, 1.125-1.135, 2.10-2.21, 2.28-2.31, 2.54-2.56, 2.63-2.64, 2.70, 2.76, 2.78, 2.103-2.135, 2.137-2.176, 2.303-2.314, 2.323-2.345, 2.362-2.366, 2.438-2.439, 2.455, 2.458, 2.473-2.476, 2.532-2.540, 3.244, 3.264, 3.349-3.383, 3.440, 3.444, 3.454-3.456, 3.461-3.469, 3.478-3.566, 4.1-4.50, 4.59-4.61, 4.67-4.215, 4.217-4.218, 4.287-4.294, 4.554 1.121. And heaved its furrowy ridges, turns once more 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 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 2.28. 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. 2.54. 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 2.63. Through winding bouts and tedious preluding 2.64. Shall I detain thee. 2.70. To well-drilled trenches, will anon put of 2.76. Now the tree-mother's towering leaves and bough 2.78. And blast it in the bearing. Lastly, that 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! 2.109. To heaven upshot with teeming boughs, the tree 2.110. Strange leaves admires and fruitage not its own. 2.111. Nor of one kind alone are sturdy elms 2.112. Willow and lotus, nor the cypress-tree 2.113. of Ida; nor of self-same fashion spring 2.114. Fat olives, orchades, and radii 2.115. And bitter-berried pausians, no, nor yet 2.116. Apples and the forests of Alcinous; 2.117. Nor from like cuttings are Crustumian pear 2.118. And Syrian, and the heavy hand-fillers. 2.119. Not the same vintage from our trees hangs down 2.120. Which placeName key= 2.121. Vines Thasian are there, Mareotids white 2.122. These apt for richer soils, for lighter those: 2.123. Psithian for raisin-wine more useful, thin 2.124. Lageos, that one day will try the feet 2.125. And tie the tongue: purples and early-ripes 2.126. And how, O Rhaetian, shall I hymn thy praise? 2.127. Yet cope not therefore with Falernian bins. 2.128. Vines Aminaean too, best-bodied wine 2.129. To which the Tmolian bows him, ay, and king 2.130. Phanaeus too, and, lesser of that name 2.131. Argitis, wherewith not a grape can vie 2.132. For gush of wine-juice or for length of years. 2.133. Nor thee must I pass over, vine of placeName key= 2.134. Welcomed by gods and at the second board 2.135. Nor thee, Bumastus, with plump clusters swollen. 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 2.303. Barren for fruits, by tilth untamable 2.304. Nor grape her kind, nor apples their good name 2.305. Maintaining—will in this wise yield thee proof: 2.306. Stout osier-baskets from the rafter-smoke 2.307. And strainers of the winepress pluck thee down; 2.308. Hereinto let that evil land, with fresh 2.309. Spring-water mixed, be trampled to the full; 2.310. The moisture, mark you, will ooze all away 2.311. In big drops issuing through the osier-withes 2.312. But plainly will its taste the secret tell 2.313. And with a harsh twang ruefully distort 2.314. The mouths of them that try it. Rich soil again 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; 2.362. In equal rows symmetric, not alone 2.363. To feed an idle fancy with the view 2.364. But since not otherwise will earth afford 2.365. Vigour to all alike, nor yet the bough 2.366. Have power to stretch them into open space. 2.438. Take heed to hide them, and dig in withal 2.439. Rough shells or porous stone, for therebetween 2.455. From story up to story. 2.458. Forbear their frailty, and while yet the bough 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. 2.532. 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 3.244. And rippling plains 'gin shiver with light gusts; 3.264. His strength with smouldering fire, till he forget 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 3.440. Whole pools are turned; and on their untrimmed beard 3.444. Stand island-like amid the frost, and stag 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. 3.461. If wool delight thee, first, be far removed 3.462. All prickly boskage, burrs and caltrops; shun 3.463. Luxuriant pastures; at the outset choose 3.464. White flocks with downy fleeces. For the ram 3.465. How white soe'er himself, be but the tongue 3.466. 'Neath his moist palate black, reject him, lest 3.467. He sully with dark spots his offspring's fleece 3.468. And seek some other o'er the teeming plain. 3.469. Even with such snowy bribe of wool, if ear 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; 4.117. That other, from neglect and squalor foul 4.118. Drags slow a cumbrous belly. As with kings 4.119. So too with people, diverse is their mould 4.120. Some rough and loathly, as when the wayfarer 4.121. Scapes from a whirl of dust, and scorched with heat 4.122. Spits forth the dry grit from his parched mouth: 4.123. The others shine forth and flash with lightning-gleam 4.124. Their backs all blazoned with bright drops of gold 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 4.131. Leaving the hive unwarmed, from such vain play 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! 4.287. of the Divine Intelligence, and to drink 4.288. Pure draughts of ether; for God permeates all— 4.289. Earth, and wide ocean, and the vault of heaven— 4.290. From whom flocks, herds, men, beasts of every kind 4.291. Draw each at birth the fine essential flame; 4.292. Yea, and that all things hence to Him return 4.293. Brought back by dissolution, nor can death 4.294. Find place: but, each into his starry rank 4.554. The steers from pasture to their stall repair

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
adynata	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 214, 215, 218, 229
aeetes	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 249
aetiology of labor	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 248
ager (field or region)	Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 89
agri cultura,centrality to italia	Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 89
amor,absence of,in the beehive	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 229
amor,as destructive force	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 251
animals,sacrificial	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 248
animals	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 216, 251
apennines	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 65
aristaeus and orpheus	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 52
ascraean song	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 52
baetis,river,barbarian	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 65
bees	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 229
bougonia	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 229
castor and pollux	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 125
cato,m. porcius,as author of origines	Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 89
cattle	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 248, 249, 250
catullus	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 74
china	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 125
cicero	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 52
corydon	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 74
countryside,charms imagined	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 74
cybele	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 217
de re rustica (varro),representation of italy in	Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 89
de re rustica (varro),use of greek sources in	Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 89
de re rustica (varro),use of roman sources in	Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 89
death,in the georgics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 229
dionysius of halicarnassus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 215
egypt	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 229; Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 125
ennius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 249
eris	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 219
ethiopia	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 125
finales,book 1	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 249, 250, 251
finales,book 2	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 250
fundanius,c.,father-in-law of varro	Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 89
georgic poet,mission of pity and community	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 52
georgics ,pity in	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 52
gods,presence in rome	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 125
gods,presence in temples	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 125
golden age,as moral value	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 93
golden age,as retrospective ideal	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 107
golden age,in georgic	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 93, 101, 107
golden age,pity in	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 52
golden age	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 218, 219, 229, 248
grafting	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 214
greek cultural influences	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 125
hesiod,allusions to	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 249
hesiod	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 219
homer	Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 89
homeric similes	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 219
horses	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 248, 249, 250, 251
hyperbole	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219
imagery,agricultural	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 248, 249
imagery,fire	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 250, 251
india	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 125
intertextuality	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 249
italia,de re rusticas representation of	Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 89
italia,laudes italiae (praises of italia)	Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 89
italy,roman perception of	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 125
italy	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 65
jupiter best and greatest,temple of,jupiter in	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 125
lapiths	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 219
laudes galli	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 229
laudes italiae	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 209, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 248, 249, 250, 251
lesbia	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 74
libya,libyan	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 65
lucretius,agriculture in	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 209
lucretius,culture-history in	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 249, 250
lucretius,mirabilia in	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 214
lucretius,myth in	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 217
lucretius,natura in	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 218
lucretius,war in	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 249
lucretius	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 74
mars	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 251
medes	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 125
metanarrative perspectives	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 65
mirabilia,in lucretius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 214
mirabilia,in the georgics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 218, 219, 229
mirabilia	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 215
monsters	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 209, 217, 250, 251
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, 217
natura	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 209, 218
natural marvels	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 65
nile,danube (also hister)	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 65
nile,inundation (flood) of the	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 65
nile,po (also eridanus)	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 65
octavian	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 248, 251
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, 251
paradoxography	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 215, 229
persia	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 125
philippi,battle of	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 125
pity,in the georgics	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 52
pliny	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 215
poetry and poetics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 249, 250
pomarium (orchard)	Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 89
portents	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 248
praise of spring	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 218, 219
praises of italy,as problematic	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 107
praises of italy,lacking poetry	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 107
praises of italy,military character of	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 107
praises of italy,reminiscent of golden age	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 101
praises of spring,as reflection on golden age	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 107
propertius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 215
religion,in lucretius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 250
rivers,symbols of their lands	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 65
ross,d. o.	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 216
sabaean imports	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 125
saturn	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 216
scythia	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 229
servius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 216, 229
similes	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 219
strabo	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 215
tartarus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 219
temples,gods present in'	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 125
theophrastus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 214, 215
thomas,r. f.	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 216
trees	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 209, 214, 215, 219
varro	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 215, 229
venus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 251
vergil,representation of italy by	Nelsestuen (2015), Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic. 89
vertumnus	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 74
vines	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 214, 219
virgil,and ennius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 249
virgil,and hesiod	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 249
virgil,and homer	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 219
vitruvius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 215
war,and agriculture	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 248, 249, 250, 251
war,civil war	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 248, 249, 250, 251
war,in lucretius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 249
war,in the georgics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 248, 249, 250, 251
war,octavian as warrior	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 248
wine	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 217
zoogony	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 217, 218