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Vergil, Georgics, 4.559-4.562
Haec super arvorum cultu pecorumque canebam With a great cry leapt on him, and ere he rose
et super arboribus, Caesar dum magnus ad altum Forestalled him with the fetters; he nathless
fulminat Euphraten bello victorque volentes All unforgetful of his ancient craft
per populos dat iura viamque adfectat Olympo. Transforms himself to every wondrous thing

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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. Cicero, On Old Age, 56-61, 55 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
3. Augustus, Res Gestae Divi Augusti, 34.1 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
4. Horace, Odes, 1.12, 3.14, 3.29.13-3.29.16 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 1.12. Accordingly, it appears to me that the misfortunes of all men, from the beginning of the world, if they be compared to these of the Jews, are not so considerable as they were; while the authors of them were not foreigners neither. This makes it impossible for me to contain my lamentations. But, if anyone be inflexible in his censures of me, let him attribute the facts themselves to the historical part, and the lamentations to the writer himself only. 1.12. 1. Now Hyrcanus was heir to the kingdom, and to him did his mother commit it before she died; but Aristobulus was superior to him in power and magimity; and when there was a battle between them, to decide the dispute about the kingdom, near Jericho, the greatest part deserted Hyrcanus, and went over to Aristobulus; 3.14. Accordingly, he wrote these things, and sent messengers immediately to carry his letter to Jerusalem. 3.14. but Antonius, who was not unapprised of the attack they were going to make upon the city, drew out his horsemen beforehand, and being neither daunted at the multitude, nor at the courage of the enemy, received their first attacks with great bravery; and when they crowded to the very walls, he beat them off.
5. Horace, Letters, 1.7.44-1.7.45 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
6. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.38-1.43, 1.62-1.79, 1.117-1.119, 1.922-1.950, 4.11-4.25, 5.20-5.21, 6.1138-6.1286 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
7. Propertius, Elegies, 2.1.31-2.1.34, 3.4 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
8. Vergil, Aeneis, 1.263-1.266, 8.714-8.731, 12.827-12.829 1.263. had stored in jars, and prince-like sent away 1.264. with his Ioved guest;—this too Aeneas gave; 1.266. “Companions mine, we have not failed to feel 8.714. Olympus calls. My goddess-mother gave 8.715. long since her promise of a heavenly sign 8.716. if war should burst; and that her power would bring 8.717. a panoply from Vulcan through the air 8.718. to help us at our need. Alas, what deaths 8.719. over Laurentum's ill-starred host impend! 8.720. O Turnus, what a reckoning thou shalt pay 8.721. to me in arms! O Tiber, in thy wave 8.722. what helms and shields and mighty soldiers slain 8.723. hall in confusion roll! Yea, let them lead 8.725. He said: and from the lofty throne uprose. 8.726. Straightway he roused anew the slumbering fire 8.727. acred to Hercules, and glad at heart 8.728. adored, as yesterday, the household gods 8.729. revered by good Evander, at whose side 8.730. the Trojan company made sacrifice 8.731. of chosen lambs, with fitting rites and true. 12.827. to see his consort's doom, his falling throne; 12.829. Meanwhile the warrior Turnus far afield
9. Vergil, Eclogues, 3.46, 6.30 3.46. by the divine art of Alcimedon 6.30. both brow and temples. Laughing at their guile
10. Vergil, Georgics, 1.40-1.41, 1.125-1.146, 1.509-1.510, 2.174-2.176, 2.207-2.211, 2.483-2.484, 3.1-3.48, 3.242-3.285, 3.289, 3.291-3.292, 3.478-3.566, 4.1-4.7, 4.116-4.117, 4.125-4.148, 4.315-4.558, 4.560-4.566 1.40. Before thee, and Tethys win thee to her son 1.41. With all her waves for dower; or as a star 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? 1.509. And from the roof-top the night-owl for naught 1.510. Watching the sunset plies her 'lated song. 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 2.207. 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? 2.483. Dance in their tipsy frolic. Furthermore 2.484. The Ausonian swains, a race from placeName key= 3.1. Thee too, great Pales, will I hymn, and thee 3.2. Amphrysian shepherd, worthy to be sung 3.3. You, woods and waves Lycaean. All themes beside 3.4. Which else had charmed the vacant mind with song 3.5. Are now waxed common. of harsh Eurystheus who 3.6. The story knows not, or that praiseless king 3.7. Busiris, and his altars? or by whom 3.8. Hath not the tale been told of Hylas young 3.9. Latonian Delos and Hippodame 3.10. And Pelops for his ivory shoulder famed 3.11. Keen charioteer? Needs must a path be tried 3.12. By which I too may lift me from the dust 3.13. And float triumphant through the mouths of men. 3.14. Yea, I shall be the first, so life endure 3.15. To lead the Muses with me, as I pa 3.16. To mine own country from the Aonian height; 3.17. I, placeName key= 3.18. of Idumaea, and raise a marble shrine 3.19. On thy green plain fast by the water-side 3.20. Where Mincius winds more vast in lazy coils 3.21. And rims his margent with the tender reed. 3.22. Amid my shrine shall Caesar's godhead dwell. 3.23. To him will I, as victor, bravely dight 3.24. In Tyrian purple, drive along the bank 3.25. A hundred four-horse cars. All placeName key= 3.26. Leaving Alpheus and Molorchus' grove 3.27. On foot shall strive, or with the raw-hide glove; 3.28. Whilst I, my head with stripped green olive crowned 3.29. Will offer gifts. Even 'tis present joy 3.30. To lead the high processions to the fane 3.31. And view the victims felled; or how the scene 3.32. Sunders with shifted face, and placeName key= 3.33. Inwoven thereon with those proud curtains rise. 3.34. of gold and massive ivory on the door 3.35. I'll trace the battle of the Gangarides 3.36. And our Quirinus' conquering arms, and there 3.37. Surging with war, and hugely flowing, the placeName key= 3.38. And columns heaped on high with naval brass. 3.39. And placeName key= 3.40. And quelled Niphates, and the Parthian foe 3.41. Who trusts in flight and backward-volleying darts 3.42. And trophies torn with twice triumphant hand 3.43. From empires twain on ocean's either shore. 3.44. And breathing forms of Parian marble there 3.45. Shall stand, the offspring of Assaracus 3.46. And great names of the Jove-descended folk 3.47. And father Tros, and placeName key= 3.48. of Cynthus. And accursed Envy there 3.242. The north wind stoops, and scatters from his path 3.243. Dry clouds and storms of placeName key= 3.244. And rippling plains 'gin shiver with light gusts; 3.245. A sound is heard among the forest-tops; 3.246. Long waves come racing shoreward: fast he flies 3.247. With instant pinion sweeping earth and main. 3.248. A steed like this or on the mighty course 3.249. of placeName key= 3.250. Red foam-flakes from his mouth, or, kindlier task 3.251. With patient neck support the Belgian car. 3.252. Then, broken at last, let swell their burly frame 3.253. With fattening corn-mash, for, unbroke, they will 3.254. With pride wax wanton, and, when caught, refuse 3.255. Tough lash to brook or jagged curb obey. 3.256. But no device so fortifies their power 3.257. As love's blind stings of passion to forefend 3.258. Whether on steed or steer thy choice be set. 3.259. Ay, therefore 'tis they banish bulls afar 3.260. To solitary pastures, or behind 3.261. Some mountain-barrier, or broad streams beyond 3.262. Or else in plenteous stalls pen fast at home. 3.263. For, even through sight of her, the female waste 3.264. His strength with smouldering fire, till he forget 3.265. Both grass and woodland. She indeed full oft 3.266. With her sweet charms can lovers proud compel 3.267. To battle for the conquest horn to horn. 3.268. In Sila's forest feeds the heifer fair 3.269. While each on each the furious rivals run; 3.270. Wound follows wound; the black blood laves their limbs; 3.271. Horns push and strive against opposing horns 3.272. With mighty groaning; all the forest-side 3.273. And far placeName key= 3.274. Nor wont the champions in one stall to couch; 3.275. But he that's worsted hies him to strange clime 3.276. Far off, an exile, moaning much the shame 3.277. The blows of that proud conqueror, then love's lo 3.278. Avenged not; with one glance toward the byre 3.279. His ancient royalties behind him lie. 3.280. So with all heed his strength he practiseth 3.281. And nightlong makes the hard bare stones his bed 3.282. And feeds on prickly leaf and pointed rush 3.283. And proves himself, and butting at a tree 3.284. Learns to fling wrath into his horns, with blow 3.285. Provokes the air, and scattering clouds of sand 3.289. As in mid ocean when a wave far of 3.291. Its rounded breast, and, onward rolled to land 3.292. Falls with prodigious roar among the rocks 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. 4.116. of peerless front and lit with flashing scales; 4.117. That other, from neglect and squalor foul 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 4.315. Or cut the empty wax away? for oft 4.316. Into their comb the newt has gnawed unseen 4.317. And the light-loathing beetles crammed their bed 4.318. And he that sits at others' board to feast 4.319. The do-naught drone; or 'gainst the unequal foe 4.320. Swoops the fierce hornet, or the moth's fell tribe; 4.321. Or spider, victim of Minerva's spite 4.322. Athwart the doorway hangs her swaying net. 4.323. The more impoverished they, the keenlier all 4.324. To mend the fallen fortunes of their race 4.325. Will nerve them, fill the cells up, tier on tier 4.326. And weave their granaries from the rifled flowers. 4.327. Now, seeing that life doth even to bee-folk bring 4.328. Our human chances, if in dire disease 4.329. Their bodies' strength should languish—which anon 4.330. By no uncertain tokens may be told— 4.331. Forthwith the sick change hue; grim leanness mar 4.332. Their visage; then from out the cells they bear 4.333. Forms reft of light, and lead the mournful pomp; 4.334. Or foot to foot about the porch they hang 4.335. Or within closed doors loiter, listless all 4.336. From famine, and benumbed with shrivelling cold. 4.337. Then is a deep note heard, a long-drawn hum 4.338. As when the chill South through the forests sighs 4.339. As when the troubled ocean hoarsely boom 4.340. With back-swung billow, as ravening tide of fire 4.341. Surges, shut fast within the furnace-walls. 4.342. Then do I bid burn scented galbanum 4.343. And, honey-streams through reeden troughs instilled 4.344. Challenge and cheer their flagging appetite 4.345. To taste the well-known food; and it shall boot 4.346. To mix therewith the savour bruised from gall 4.347. And rose-leaves dried, or must to thickness boiled 4.348. By a fierce fire, or juice of raisin-grape 4.349. From Psithian vine, and with its bitter smell 4.350. Centaury, and the famed Cecropian thyme. 4.351. There is a meadow-flower by country folk 4.352. Hight star-wort; 'tis a plant not far to seek; 4.353. For from one sod an ample growth it rears 4.354. Itself all golden, but girt with plenteous leaves 4.355. Where glory of purple shines through violet gloom. 4.356. With chaplets woven hereof full oft are decked 4.357. Heaven's altars: harsh its taste upon the tongue; 4.358. Shepherds in vales smooth-shorn of nibbling flock 4.359. By placeName key= 4.360. The roots of this, well seethed in fragrant wine 4.361. Set in brimmed baskets at their doors for food. 4.362. But if one's whole stock fail him at a stroke 4.363. Nor hath he whence to breed the race anew 4.364. 'Tis time the wondrous secret to disclose 4.365. Taught by the swain of Arcady, even how 4.366. The blood of slaughtered bullocks oft has borne 4.367. Bees from corruption. I will trace me back 4.368. To its prime source the story's tangled thread 4.369. And thence unravel. For where thy happy folk 4.370. Canopus , city of Pellaean fame 4.371. Dwell by the placeName key= 4.372. And high o'er furrows they have called their own 4.373. Skim in their painted wherries; where, hard by 4.374. The quivered Persian presses, and that flood 4.375. Which from the swart-skinned Aethiop bears him down 4.376. Swift-parted into sevenfold branching mouth 4.377. With black mud fattens and makes Aegypt green 4.378. That whole domain its welfare's hope secure 4.379. Rests on this art alone. And first is chosen 4.380. A strait recess, cramped closer to this end 4.381. Which next with narrow roof of tiles atop 4.382. 'Twixt prisoning walls they pinch, and add hereto 4.383. From the four winds four slanting window-slits. 4.384. Then seek they from the herd a steer, whose horn 4.385. With two years' growth are curling, and stop fast 4.386. Plunge madly as he may, the panting mouth 4.387. And nostrils twain, and done with blows to death 4.388. Batter his flesh to pulp i' the hide yet whole 4.389. And shut the doors, and leave him there to lie. 4.390. But 'neath his ribs they scatter broken boughs 4.391. With thyme and fresh-pulled cassias: this is done 4.392. When first the west winds bid the waters flow 4.393. Ere flush the meadows with new tints, and ere 4.394. The twittering swallow buildeth from the beams. 4.395. Meanwhile the juice within his softened bone 4.396. Heats and ferments, and things of wondrous birth 4.397. Footless at first, anon with feet and wings 4.398. Swarm there and buzz, a marvel to behold; 4.399. And more and more the fleeting breeze they take 4.400. Till, like a shower that pours from summer-clouds 4.401. Forth burst they, or like shafts from quivering string 4.402. When 4.403. Say what was he, what God, that fashioned forth 4.404. This art for us, O Muses? of man's skill 4.405. Whence came the new adventure? From thy vale 4.406. Peneian Tempe, turning, bee-bereft 4.407. So runs the tale, by famine and disease 4.408. Mournful the shepherd Aristaeus stood 4.409. Fast by the haunted river-head, and thu 4.410. With many a plaint to her that bare him cried: 4.411. “Mother, Cyrene, mother, who hast thy home 4.412. Beneath this whirling flood, if he thou sayest 4.413. Apollo, lord of Thymbra, be my sire 4.414. Sprung from the Gods' high line, why barest thou me 4.415. With fortune's ban for birthright? Where is now 4.416. Thy love to me-ward banished from thy breast? 4.417. O! wherefore didst thou bid me hope for heaven? 4.418. Lo! even the crown of this poor mortal life 4.419. Which all my skilful care by field and fold 4.420. No art neglected, scarce had fashioned forth 4.421. Even this falls from me, yet thou call'st me son. 4.422. Nay, then, arise! With thine own hands pluck up 4.423. My fruit-plantations: on the homestead fling 4.424. Pitiless fire; make havoc of my crops; 4.425. Burn the young plants, and wield the stubborn axe 4.426. Against my vines, if there hath taken the 4.427. Such loathing of my greatness.” 4.428. But that cry 4.429. Even from her chamber in the river-deeps 4.430. His mother heard: around her spun the nymph 4.431. Milesian wool stained through with hyaline dye 4.432. Drymo, Xantho, Ligea, Phyllodoce 4.433. Their glossy locks o'er snowy shoulders shed 4.434. Cydippe and Lycorias yellow-haired 4.435. A maiden one, one newly learned even then 4.436. To bear Lucina's birth-pang. Clio, too 4.437. And Beroe, sisters, ocean-children both 4.438. Both zoned with gold and girt with dappled fell 4.439. Ephyre and Opis, and from Asian mead 4.440. Deiopea, and, bow at length laid by 4.441. Fleet-footed Arethusa. But in their midst 4.442. Fair Clymene was telling o'er the tale 4.443. of Vulcan's idle vigilance and the stealth 4.444. of Mars' sweet rapine, and from Chaos old 4.445. Counted the jostling love-joys of the Gods. 4.446. Charmed by whose lay, the while their woolly task 4.447. With spindles down they drew, yet once again 4.448. Smote on his mother's ears the mournful plaint 4.449. of Aristaeus; on their glassy throne 4.450. Amazement held them all; but Arethuse 4.451. Before the rest put forth her auburn head 4.452. Peering above the wave-top, and from far 4.453. Exclaimed, “Cyrene, sister, not for naught 4.454. Scared by a groan so deep, behold! 'tis he 4.455. Even Aristaeus, thy heart's fondest care 4.456. Here by the brink of the Peneian sire 4.457. Stands woebegone and weeping, and by name 4.458. Cries out upon thee for thy cruelty.” 4.459. To whom, strange terror knocking at her heart 4.460. “Bring, bring him to our sight,” the mother cried; 4.461. “His feet may tread the threshold even of Gods.” 4.462. So saying, she bids the flood yawn wide and yield 4.463. A pathway for his footsteps; but the wave 4.464. Arched mountain-wise closed round him, and within 4.465. Its mighty bosom welcomed, and let speed 4.466. To the deep river-bed. And now, with eye 4.467. of wonder gazing on his mother's hall 4.468. And watery kingdom and cave-prisoned pool 4.469. And echoing groves, he went, and, stunned by that 4.470. Stupendous whirl of waters, separate saw 4.471. All streams beneath the mighty earth that glide 4.472. Phasis and Lycus, and that fountain-head 4.473. Whence first the deep Enipeus leaps to light 4.474. Whence father placeName key= 4.475. And Hypanis that roars amid his rocks 4.476. And Mysian Caicus, and, bull-browed 4.477. 'Twixt either gilded horn, placeName key= 4.478. Than whom none other through the laughing plain 4.479. More furious pours into the purple sea. 4.480. Soon as the chamber's hanging roof of stone 4.481. Was gained, and now Cyrene from her son 4.482. Had heard his idle weeping, in due course 4.483. Clear water for his hands the sisters bring 4.484. With napkins of shorn pile, while others heap 4.485. The board with dainties, and set on afresh 4.486. The brimming goblets; with Panchaian fire 4.487. Upleap the altars; then the mother spake 4.488. “Take beakers of Maconian wine,” she said 4.489. “Pour we to Ocean.” Ocean, sire of all 4.490. She worships, and the sister-nymphs who guard 4.491. The hundred forests and the hundred streams; 4.492. Thrice Vesta's fire with nectar clear she dashed 4.493. Thrice to the roof-top shot the flame and shone: 4.494. Armed with which omen she essayed to speak: 4.495. “In Neptune's gulf Carpathian dwells a seer 4.496. Caerulean Proteus, he who metes the main 4.497. With fish-drawn chariot of two-footed steeds; 4.498. Now visits he his native home once more 4.499. Pallene and the Emathian ports; to him 4.500. We nymphs do reverence, ay, and Nereus old; 4.501. For all things knows the seer, both those which are 4.502. And have been, or which time hath yet to bring; 4.503. So willed it Neptune, whose portentous flocks 4.504. And loathly sea-calves 'neath the surge he feeds. 4.505. Him first, my son, behoves thee seize and bind 4.506. That he may all the cause of sickness show 4.507. And grant a prosperous end. For save by force 4.508. No rede will he vouchsafe, nor shalt thou bend 4.509. His soul by praying; whom once made captive, ply 4.510. With rigorous force and fetters; against these 4.511. His wiles will break and spend themselves in vain. 4.512. I, when the sun has lit his noontide fires 4.513. When the blades thirst, and cattle love the shade 4.514. Myself will guide thee to the old man's haunt 4.515. Whither he hies him weary from the waves 4.516. That thou mayst safelier steal upon his sleep. 4.517. But when thou hast gripped him fast with hand and gyve 4.518. Then divers forms and bestial semblance 4.519. Shall mock thy grasp; for sudden he will change 4.520. To bristly boar, fell tigress, dragon scaled 4.521. And tawny-tufted lioness, or send forth 4.522. A crackling sound of fire, and so shake of 4.523. The fetters, or in showery drops anon 4.524. Dissolve and vanish. But the more he shift 4.525. His endless transformations, thou, my son 4.526. More straitlier clench the clinging bands, until 4.527. His body's shape return to that thou sawest 4.528. When with closed eyelids first he sank to sleep.” 4.529. So saying, an odour of ambrosial dew 4.530. She sheds around, and all his frame therewith 4.531. Steeps throughly; forth from his trim-combed lock 4.532. Breathed effluence sweet, and a lithe vigour leapt 4.533. Into his limbs. There is a cavern vast 4.534. Scooped in the mountain-side, where wave on wave 4.535. By the wind's stress is driven, and breaks far up 4.536. Its inmost creeks—safe anchorage from of old 4.537. For tempest-taken mariners: therewithin 4.538. Behind a rock's huge barrier, Proteus hides. 4.539. Here in close covert out of the sun's eye 4.540. The youth she places, and herself the while 4.541. Swathed in a shadowy mist stands far aloof. 4.542. And now the ravening dog-star that burns up 4.543. The thirsty Indians blazed in heaven; his course 4.544. The fiery sun had half devoured: the blade 4.545. Were parched, and the void streams with droughty jaw 4.546. Baked to their mud-beds by the scorching ray 4.547. When Proteus seeking his accustomed cave 4.548. Strode from the billows: round him frolicking 4.549. The watery folk that people the waste sea 4.550. Sprinkled the bitter brine-dew far and wide. 4.551. Along the shore in scattered groups to feed 4.552. The sea-calves stretch them: while the seer himself 4.553. Like herdsman on the hills when evening bid 4.554. The steers from pasture to their stall repair 4.555. And the lambs' bleating whets the listening wolves 4.556. Sits midmost on the rock and tells his tale. 4.557. But Aristaeus, the foe within his clutch 4.558. Scarce suffering him compose his aged limbs 4.560. Forestalled him with the fetters; he nathless 4.561. All unforgetful of his ancient craft 4.562. Transforms himself to every wondrous thing 4.563. Fire and a fearful beast, and flowing stream. 4.564. But when no trickery found a path for flight 4.565. Baffled at length, to his own shape returned 4.566. With human lips he spake, “Who bade thee, then

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
actium	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 197
ambiguity,in georgics	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 19
amor,in georgics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 45
amor,poetry and	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 55
animals	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 45
aristaeus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 55, 183
aristaeus and orpheus	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 25, 58
ataraxia	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 244
athens	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 45, 183
audiences,heterogeneity of	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 197
augustine	Ando (2013), Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire, 53
augustus/octavian,as author and builder	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 203
augustus/octavian,as performer of a public image	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 197
augustus/octavian,relation with the gods	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 53, 54
barchiesi,alessandro	Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 127, 128
bees	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 183
buchheit,v.	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 25
caesar,octavian,and georgic poet (virgil)	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 58
citizen and subject,boundary between	Ando (2013), Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire, 148
coinage	Xinyue (2022), Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry, 100
corycian gardener	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 183
cyrene	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 55
daphnis	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 183
didactic poetry,and tragedy	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 19
dodds,e.r.	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 19
elegy	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 197
epic	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 197
epicureanism	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 244
epicurus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 244
euphrates	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 61; Xinyue (2022), Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry, 100, 101
fantham,elaine	Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 127
finales,book 2	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 183
finales,book 3	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 45
finales,book 4	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 45, 55, 183
finales,in lucretius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 45
finales	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 244
foreigners	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 203
furor	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 45, 55
galinsky,karl	Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 128
georgic poet,as impotent in world of power	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 58
georgic poet,as iron age figure	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 58
georgic poet and caesar (octavian),,and other poet figures	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 19
georgic poet and caesar (octavian)	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 58
georgics ,ambiguity in	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 19
georgics ,beautiful and tragic in	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 58
georgics ,pity in	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 58
golden age,pity in	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 58
golden age	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 183
horace,and maecenas	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 61
imagery,military	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 244
imagination	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 203
immortality	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 53, 54
inconsistency	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 54
indeterminacy,historical narratives	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 203
indeterminacy,horace	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 54, 197
information,transmission across distance	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 203
jupiter	Xinyue (2022), Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry, 100, 101
knox,peter	Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 128
labor,in roman ideology	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 183
labor,in the georgics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 183
labor	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 45
maecenas,and horace	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 61
maecenas	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 53
makarismos	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 183
marsyas	Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 127
metaliterariness	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 203
metus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 183
militarism	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 53, 203
monuments	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 197
muses	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 45
naples	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 61
octavian	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 183, 244
orpheus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 55, 183; Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 25
otium	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 183, 244
pastoral	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 55, 183
patronage	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 53
patrons,of literature	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 61
peace	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 53
persia	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 75
pessimism	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 244
philia	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 244
philippi,battle of	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 75
pity,in the georgics	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 58
plague	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 45
poetry and poetics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 45, 55, 244
poets,rivalry with the princeps	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 53, 54, 203
politics,in the georgics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 45
presence/absence	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 203
privacy,and a political life	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 75
propertius	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 183; Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 197
prophecy	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 197
proteus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 55
public life,boundaries with private life	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 75
relation with reality	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 197
remythologization	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 244
revisionary,verbs of	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 203
rivers,euphrates	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 53, 197, 203
rivers,nile	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 197
ross,d. o.	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 244
servius	Ando (2013), Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire, 53
sphragis	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 45, 55, 183, 244
spoils	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 203
suspension,in georgics	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 19
syme,ronald	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 53, 54
tarant,richard	Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 127
tarentum	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 183
temple,as metaliterary devices	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 203
thomas,r. f.	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 244
thyrsis	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 183
tibur	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 61
tisiphone	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 45
tityrus	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 55, 183
triumph,of poets and fame	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 53
varro	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 54
vergil	Ando (2013), Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire, 53; Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 53, 54
virgil,and octavian	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 183, 244
virgil,as pastoral figure	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 55, 183
war,and poetry	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 244
war,civil war	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 183, 244
war,in the georgics	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 244
war,octavian as warrior	Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 183, 244
women'	Pandey (2018), The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 203