Georgics

Virgil

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

  1. condit opes alius defossoque incubat auro;
  2. hic stupet attonitus rostris; hunc plausus hiantem
  3. per cuneos—geminatus enim plebisque patrumque—
  4. corripuit; gaudent perfusi sanguine fratrum,
  5. exsilioque domos et dulcia limina mutant
  6. atque alio patriam quaerunt sub sole iacentem.
  7. Agricola incurvo terram dimovit aratro:
  8. hinc anni labor, hinc patriam parvosque nepotes
  9. sustinet, hinc armenta boum meritosque iuvencos.
  10. Nec requies, quin aut pomis exuberet annus
  11. aut fetu pecorum aut cerealis mergite culmi,
  12. proventuque oneret sulcos atque horrea vincat.
  13. Venit hiems: teritur Sicyonia baca trapetis,
  14. glande sues laeti redeunt, dant arbuta silvae;
  15. et varios ponit fetus autumnus et alte
  16. mitis in apricis coquitur vindemia saxis.
  17. Interea dulces pendent circum oscula nati,
  18. casta pudicitiam servat domus, ubera vaccae
  19. lactea demittunt pinguesque in gramine laeto
  20. inter se adversis luctantur cornibus haedi.