Identifier: georgicorumlibr00virg (find matches)
Title: Georgicorum libri quatuor
Year: 1827 (1820s)
Authors: Virgil Martyn, John, 1699-1768, (from old catalog) ed. and tr
Subjects: Didactic poetry, Latin Agriculture
Publisher: Oxford, Printed by W. Baxter, for C. and J. Rivington (etc.) London and J. Parker, Oxford
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ASTEIR ATTIIirrS p. VIRGILII MARONIS GEORGICO RUM LIBER PRIMUS. Quid fadat lastas segetes, quo sidere terramVertere, Maecenas, ulmisque adjungere vitesConveniat: quae cura bourn, qui cultus habendoSit pecori: apibus quanta experientia parcis : What may make the fieldsrejoice, under what signs itmay be proper to turn theearth, and join tlie vines toelms: what care is to be hartof oxen, and how other cattlemay be managed: what ex-perience is required to treatthe frugal bees: 1. Quid facial d^c) Virgil beginsthis poem with a brief account ofthe subjects of his four books: cornand ploughing being the subject ofthe first, vines and other trees ofthe second, cattle of the third, andbees of the fourth. Lcetas segeles) Seges is common-ly used by Virgil to signify thefield. Joyful is a noble epithet:we have the same metaphor used insome passages of the Bible. Thusit is in the 65th Psalm, ver. 14. The valleys shall stand so thick• with corn, that they shall laugh and sing. Quo sidere.\ This e

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