Georgics

Virgil

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

  1. hic petit excidiis urbem miserosque Penatis,
  2. ut gemma bibat et Sarrano dormiat ostro;
  3. condit opes alius defossoque incubat auro;
  4. hic stupet attonitus rostris; hunc plausus hiantem
  5. per cuneos—geminatus enim plebisque patrumque—
  6. corripuit; gaudent perfusi sanguine fratrum,
  7. exsilioque domos et dulcia limina mutant
  8. atque alio patriam quaerunt sub sole iacentem.
  9. Agricola incurvo terram dimovit aratro:
  10. hinc anni labor, hinc patriam parvosque nepotes
  11. sustinet, hinc armenta boum meritosque iuvencos.
  12. Nec requies, quin aut pomis exuberet annus
  13. aut fetu pecorum aut cerealis mergite culmi,
  14. proventuque oneret sulcos atque horrea vincat.