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Vergil, Georgics, 2.216-2.225


dulcem ferre cibum et curvas praebere latebras.The Marsi and Sabellian youth, and, schooled


Quae tenuem exhalat nebulam fumosque volucrisTo hardship, the Ligurian, and with these


et bibit humorem et, cum volt, ex se ipsa remittitThe Volscian javelin-armed, the Decii too


quaeque suo semper viridi se gramine vestitThe Marii and Camilli, names of might


nec scabie et salsa laedit robigine ferrum:The Scipios, stubborn warriors, ay, and thee


illa tibi laetis intexet vitibus ulmosGreat Caesar, who in


illa ferax oleo est, illam experiere colendoWith conquering arm e'en now art fending far


et facilem pecori et patientem vomeris unci.The unwarlike Indian from the heights of


Talem dives arat Capua et vicina VesevoHail! land of Saturn, mighty mother thou


ora iugo et vacuis Clanius non aequus Acerris.Of fruits and heroes; 'tis for thee I dare


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

5 results
1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 643 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

643. In all his strength, upon the windy, worn
2. Epicurus, Letter To Menoeceus, 130, 129 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

3. Philodemus, De Oeconomia, 11.30-11.41 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

4. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 6.253-6.256 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

5. Vergil, Georgics, 2.37, 2.47-2.72, 2.207-2.211, 2.217-2.225, 2.230-2.232, 2.239, 2.277, 2.333, 2.343, 2.397, 2.405-2.406, 2.412, 2.417, 2.472, 2.513-2.514, 4.118, 4.133, 4.271 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

2.37. And slips yet quick within the parent-soil; 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 2.207. 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 2.277. Which vapoury mist and flitting smoke exhales 2.333. The vine's prolific kindred. Fields whose soil 2.343. Upon the bark, that each may be restored 2.397. Can they recover, and from the earth beneath 2.405. Comes the white bird long-bodied snakes abhor 2.406. Or on the eve of autumn's earliest frost 2.412. With quickening showers to his glad wife's embrace 2.417. Then the boon earth yields increase, and the field 2.472. Besport them, sheep and heifers glut their greed. 2.513. Twice doth the thickening shade beset the vine 2.514. Twice weeds with stifling briers o'ergrow the crop; 4.118. Drags slow a cumbrous belly. As with kings 4.133. Nor hard the task: tear off the monarchs' wings; 4.271. From grandsire unto grandsire backward told.


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
animals Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 88, 216
bacchus Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 87
cato the elder (ciceronian spokesman) Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 241
centaurs Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 88
cicero Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 241
cincinnatus Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 241
cura Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 168
farming, bonus agricola Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 241
farming Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 241
formulae Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 168
gods, in the georgics Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 87, 168
golden age Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 87
hesiod, allusions to Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 168
hyperbole Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 88, 216
imagery, military Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 168
income Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 241
labor, in the georgics Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 168
labor/toil Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 241
lapiths Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 88
laudes italiae Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 87, 216
leisure Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 241
lucretius, formulae in Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 168
metus Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 168
natura Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 88
olives Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 88
personification Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 87
pleasure Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 241
profit Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 241
providentialism Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 87
rational calculus Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 241
ross, d. o. Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 216
saturn Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 216
servius Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 216
thomas, r. f. Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 216
tranquility (ἀταραξία) Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 241
trees Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 87, 88, 168
vines Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 88, 168
virgil Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 241
wealthy epicureans Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 241
wine Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 88
xenophon' Nijs, The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus (2023) 241