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Vergil, Georgics, 2.18-2.21
ut cerasis ulmisque; etiam Parnasia laurus Poplar, and willows in wan companie
parva sub ingenti matris se subicit umbra. With green leaf glimmering gray; and some there be
Hos natura modos primum dedit, his genus omne From chance-dropped seed that rear them, as the tall
silvarum fruticumque viret nemorumque sacrorum. Chestnuts, and, mightiest of the branching wood

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1. Homer, Iliad, 21.264 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 21.264. /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
2. Theocritus, Idylls, 1.132-1.134, 7.133-7.146, 7.148, 7.154-7.157 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
3. Theophrastus, Plant Explanations, 1.6.10 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
4. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 2.156-2.158 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 2.156. Then the earth, teeming with grain and vegetables of various kinds, which she pours forth in lavish abundance — does she appear to give birth to this produce for the sake of the wild beasts or for the sake of men? What shall I say of the vines and olives, whose bounteous and delightful fruits do not concern the lower animals at all? In fact the beasts of the field are entirely ignorant of the arts of sowing and cultivating, and of reaping and gathering the fruits of the earth in due season and storing them in garners; all these products are both enjoyed and tended by men. 2.157. Just as therefore we are bound to say that lyres and flutes were made for the sake of those who can use them, so it must be agreed that the things of which I have spoken have been provided for those only who make use of them, and even if some portion of them is filched or plundered by some of the lower animals, we shall not admit that they were created for the sake of these animals also. Men do not store up corn for the sake of mice and ants but for their wives and children and households; so the animals share these fruits of the earth only by stealth as I have said, whereas the masters enjoy them openly and freely. 2.158. It must therefore be admitted that all this abundance was provided for the sake of men, unless perchance the bounteous plenty and variety of our orchard fruit and the delightfulness not only of its flavour but also of its scent and appearance lead us to doubt whether nature intended this gift for man alone! So far is it from being true that the furs of the earth were provided for the sake of animals as well as men, that the animals themselves, as we may see, were created for the benefit of men. What other use have sheep save that their fleeces are dressed and woven into clothing for men? and in fact they could not have been reared nor sustained nor have produced anything of value without man's care and tendance. Then think of the dog, with its trusty watchfulness, its fawning affection for its master and hatred of strangers, its incredible keenness of scent in following a trail and its eagerness in hunting — what do these qualities imply except that they were created to serve the conveniences of men?
5. Varro, On Agriculture, 1.40.1, 1.40.5 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
6. Horace, Letters, 2.1.233-2.1.234 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
7. Horace, Epodes, 11 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
8. Horace, Sermones, 1.4.5 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
9. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.159-1.214, 1.250-1.261, 1.1021-1.1028, 2.342-2.380, 2.1058-2.1063, 3.316-3.318, 3.719-3.721, 5.186, 5.212, 5.419-5.431, 5.783-5.820, 5.878-5.924, 5.1345, 5.1361-5.1378, 5.1452, 6.654-6.655, 6.675-6.677 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
10. Ovid, Amores, 3.1 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
11. Vergil, Eclogues, 4.29, 4.39, 5.74, 8.53 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 4.29. hall of the monstrous lion have no fear. 4.39. and stubborn oaks sweat honey-dew. Nathle 5.74. Wherefore the woods and fields, Pan, shepherd-folk 8.53. I scarce had entered, and could barely reach
12. Vergil, Georgics, 1.147, 1.157, 1.277-1.283, 1.316-1.334, 1.351-1.355, 1.415-1.423, 2.9-2.17, 2.19-2.82, 2.103-2.109, 2.136-2.176, 2.181-2.193, 2.207-2.211, 2.217-2.225, 2.230-2.232, 2.239, 2.303-2.314, 2.370, 3.332-3.334 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 1.147. But no whit the more 1.157. In drowsy sloth to stagnate. Before Jove 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 1.316. 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. 1.351. 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 2.9. Hither, O Father of the wine-press, come 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 2.19. 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 2.22. Jove's Aesculus, and oaks, oracular 2.23. Deemed by the Greeks of old. With some sprouts forth 2.24. A forest of dense suckers from the root 2.25. As elms and cherries; so, too, a pigmy plant 2.26. Beneath its mother's mighty shade upshoot 2.27. The bay-tree of placeName key= 2.28. Nature imparted first; hence all the race 2.29. of forest-trees and shrubs and sacred grove 2.30. Springs into verdure. Other means there are 2.31. Which use by method for itself acquired. 2.32. One, sliving suckers from the tender frame 2.33. of the tree-mother, plants them in the trench; 2.34. One buries the bare stumps within his field 2.35. Truncheons cleft four-wise, or sharp-pointed stakes; 2.36. Some forest-trees the layer's bent arch await 2.37. And slips yet quick within the parent-soil; 2.38. No root need others, nor doth the pruner's hand 2.39. Shrink to restore the topmost shoot to earth 2.40. That gave it being. Nay, marvellous to tell 2.41. Lopped of its limbs, the olive, a mere stock 2.42. Still thrusts its root out from the sapless wood 2.43. And oft the branches of one kind we see 2.44. Change to another's with no loss to rue 2.45. Pear-tree transformed the ingrafted apple yield 2.46. And stony cornels on the plum-tree blush. 2.47. Come then, and learn what tilth to each belong 2.48. According to their kinds, ye husbandmen 2.49. And tame with culture the wild fruits, lest earth 2.50. Lie idle. O blithe to make all Ismaru 2.51. One forest of the wine-god, and to clothe 2.52. With olives huge Tabernus! And be thou 2.53. At hand, and with me ply the voyage of toil 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 2.57. Spread sail like wings to waft thee. Not that I 2.58. With my poor verse would comprehend the whole 2.59. Nay, though a hundred tongues, a hundred mouth 2.60. Were mine, a voice of iron; be thou at hand 2.61. Skirt but the nearer coast-line; see the shore 2.62. Is in our grasp; not now with feigned song 2.63. Through winding bouts and tedious preluding 2.64. Shall I detain thee. 2.65. Those that lift their head 2.66. Into the realms of light spontaneously 2.67. Fruitless indeed, but blithe and strenuous spring 2.68. Since Nature lurks within the soil. And yet 2.69. Even these, should one engraft them, or transplant 2.70. To well-drilled trenches, will anon put of 2.71. Their woodland temper, and, by frequent tilth 2.72. To whatso craft thou summon them, make speed 2.73. To follow. So likewise will the barren shaft 2.74. That from the stock-root issueth, if it be 2.75. Set out with clear space amid open fields: 2.76. Now the tree-mother's towering leaves and bough 2.77. Darken, despoil of increase as it grows 2.78. And blast it in the bearing. Lastly, that 2.79. Which from shed seed ariseth, upward win 2.80. But slowly, yielding promise of its shade 2.81. To late-born generations; apples wane 2.82. Forgetful of their former juice, the grape 2.103. Wherein from some strange tree a germ they pen 2.104. And to the moist rind bid it cleave and grow. 2.105. Or, otherwise, in knotless trunks is hewn 2.106. A breach, and deep into the solid grain 2.107. A path with wedges cloven; then fruitful slip 2.108. Are set herein, and—no long time—behold! 2.109. To heaven upshot with teeming boughs, the tree 2.136. But lo! how many kinds, and what their names 2.137. There is no telling, nor doth it boot to tell; 2.138. Who lists to know it, he too would list to learn 2.139. How many sand-grains are by Zephyr tossed 2.140. On placeName key= 2.141. With fury on the ships, how many wave 2.142. Come rolling shoreward from the Ionian sea. 2.143. Not that all soils can all things bear alike. 2.144. Willows by water-courses have their birth 2.145. Alders in miry fens; on rocky height 2.146. The barren mountain-ashes; on the shore 2.147. Myrtles throng gayest; Bacchus, lastly, love 2.148. The bare hillside, and yews the north wind's chill. 2.149. Mark too the earth by outland tillers tamed 2.150. And Eastern homes of Arabs, and tattooed 2.151. Geloni; to all trees their native land 2.152. Allotted are; no clime but placeName key= 2.153. Black ebony; the branch of frankincense 2.154. Is placeName key= 2.155. of balsams oozing from the perfumed wood 2.156. Or berries of acanthus ever green? 2.157. of Aethiop forests hoar with downy wool 2.158. Or how the Seres comb from off the leave 2.159. Their silky fleece? of groves which placeName key= 2.160. Ocean's near neighbour, earth's remotest nook 2.161. Where not an arrow-shot can cleave the air 2.162. Above their tree-tops? yet no laggards they 2.163. When girded with the quiver! Media yield 2.164. The bitter juices and slow-lingering taste 2.165. of the blest citron-fruit, than which no aid 2.166. Comes timelier, when fierce step-dames drug the cup 2.167. With simples mixed and spells of baneful power 2.168. To drive the deadly poison from the limbs. 2.169. Large the tree's self in semblance like a bay 2.170. And, showered it not a different scent abroad 2.171. A bay it had been; for no wind of heaven 2.172. Its foliage falls; the flower, none faster, clings; 2.173. With it the Medes for sweetness lave the lips 2.174. And ease the panting breathlessness of age. 2.175. But no, not Mede-land with its wealth of woods 2.176. Nor Ganges fair, and Hermus thick with gold 2.181. Sown with the monstrous dragon's teeth, nor crop 2.182. of warriors bristled thick with lance and helm; 2.183. But heavy harvests and the Massic juice 2.184. of Bacchus fill its borders, overspread 2.185. With fruitful flocks and olives. Hence arose 2.186. The war-horse stepping proudly o'er the plain; 2.187. Hence thy white flocks, placeName key= 2.188. of victims mightiest, which full oft have led 2.189. Bathed in thy sacred stream, the triumph-pomp 2.190. of Romans to the temples of the gods. 2.191. Here blooms perpetual spring, and summer here 2.192. In months that are not summer's; twice teem the flocks; 2.193. Twice doth the tree yield service of her fruit. 2.207. Or sing her harbours, and the barrier cast 2.208. Athwart the Lucrine, and how ocean chafe 2.209. With mighty bellowings, where the Julian wave 2.210. Echoes the thunder of his rout, and through 2.211. Avernian inlets pours the Tuscan tide? 2.217. To hardship, the Ligurian, and with these 2.218. The Volscian javelin-armed, the Decii too 2.219. The Marii and Camilli, names of might 2.220. The Scipios, stubborn warriors, ay, and thee 2.221. Great Caesar, who in placeName key= 2.222. With conquering arm e'en now art fending far 2.223. The unwarlike Indian from the heights of placeName key= 2.224. Hail! land of Saturn, mighty mother thou 2.225. of fruits and heroes; 'tis for thee I dare 2.230. What powers hath each, what hue, what natural bent 2.231. For yielding increase. First your stubborn land 2.232. And churlish hill-sides, where are thorny field 2.239. That teems with grasses on its fruitful breast 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 2.370. The tree that props it, aesculus in chief 3.332. The fire, in Spring-tide chiefly, for with Spring 3.333. Warmth doth their frames revisit, then they stand 3.334. All facing westward on the rocky heights

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
adynata	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 213, 214
allusion	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 47
aloadae	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 234
apollo	Putnam et al., The Poetic World of Statius' Silvae (2023) 75
atedius melior	Putnam et al., The Poetic World of Statius' Silvae (2023) 75
bacchus	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 87
callimachus	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 47
columella	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 212
cultivation	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 234, 238
daphnis	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 213
epicurus (and epicurean)	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 47
eumenides	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 234
fire	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 234
gallus, cornelius	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 47
gigantomachy/giants	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 234, 238
god/goddess	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 238
gods, in the georgics	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 86, 87
golden age	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 87, 210, 213
grafting	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 234; Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 211, 212, 213, 214
growth, spontaneous (wild)	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 234, 238
hercules	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 210
hesiod	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 234
hexameters	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 47
homer	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 238
intertextuality	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 234
jupiter	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 238; Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 86, 210
laudes italiae	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 87, 209
lucretius, agriculture in	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 86, 209, 210, 211
lucretius, culture-history in	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 86, 210
lucretius, laws of nature in	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 86
lucretius, mirabilia in	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 214
lucretius, natura in	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 86
lucretius	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 47
lycoris	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 47
maecenas	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 211
metaphor	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 238
mirabilia, in lucretius	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 214
mirabilia	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 213
mollis'	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 47
monsters	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 209
natura	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 86, 209, 210
nature	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 234
nymphs	Putnam et al., The Poetic World of Statius' Silvae (2023) 75
oak	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 234
olive	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 234
olympian	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 234, 238
orpheus	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 212
otus and ephialtes	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 234
pan	Putnam et al., The Poetic World of Statius' Silvae (2023) 75
pastoral	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 213
personification	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 87, 213
pholoe	Putnam et al., The Poetic World of Statius' Silvae (2023) 75
pliny	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 212
providentialism	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 86, 87
scha¨fer, s.	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 86
silenus	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 47
theocritus	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 213
theophrastus	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 210, 212, 214
titans	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 234
tityrus	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 47
trees, in statius poetry	Putnam et al., The Poetic World of Statius' Silvae (2023) 75
trees	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 86, 87, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214
typhoeus	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 234
varro	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 212
venus	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 210
vergil, bucolics	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 47
vines	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 214