Georgics
Virgil
Vergil. The Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics Of Virgil. Greenough, J.B., editor. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1881.
- Venit hiems: teritur Sicyonia baca trapetis,
- glande sues laeti redeunt, dant arbuta silvae;
- et varios ponit fetus autumnus et alte
- mitis in apricis coquitur vindemia saxis.
- Interea dulces pendent circum oscula nati,
- casta pudicitiam servat domus, ubera vaccae
- lactea demittunt pinguesque in gramine laeto
- inter se adversis luctantur cornibus haedi.
- Ipse dies agitat festos fususque per herbam,
- ignis ubi in medio et socii cratera coronant,
- te libans, Lenaee, vocat pecorisque magistris
- velocis iaculi certamina ponit in ulmo,
- corporaque agresti nudant praedura palaestrae.
- Hanc olim veteres vitam coluere Sabini,