Georgics

Virgil

Vergil. The Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics Of Virgil. Greenough, J.B., editor. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1881.

  1. multa virum volvens durando saecula vincit.
  2. Tum fortis late ramos et bracchia pandens
  3. huc illuc, media ipsa ingentem sustinet umbram.
  4. Neve tibi ad solem vergant vineta cadentem,
  5. Neve inter vitis corylum sere, neve flagella
  6. summa pete aut summa defringe ex arbore plantas
  7. tantus amor terrae—neu ferro laede retunso
  8. semina, neve oleae silvestris insere truncos:
  9. nam saepe incautis pastoribus excidit ignis,
  10. qui furtim pingui primum sub cortice tectus
  11. robora conprendit frondesque elapsus in altas
  12. ingentem caelo sonitum dedit; inde secutus
  13. per ramos victor perque alta cacumina regnat
  14. et totum involvit flammis nemus et ruit atram