Waving with box, Narycian groves of pitch; Oh! blithe the sight of fields beholden not To rake or ...
2011-12-15
29 BC THE GEORGICS by Virgil GEORGIC I What makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star Maecen...
Ere ten years ended, after four begins; Their residue of days nor apt to teem, Nor strong for plou...
Wherefore, unless thou shalt with ceaseless rake The weeds pursue, with shouting scare the birds, ...
Hard enterprise! and well he might require Achilles' car and horses, for his hire: But, met upon t...
As never more in fields to meet the foe; Then I conclude for peace: 't is time to treat, And lie l...
What chiefs and champions fell on either side, In combat slain, or by what deaths they died; Whom ...
Thro' air she flies a suppliant to thy shrine; And the first weapons that she knows, are thine.' H...
These eyes beheld Murranus bite the ground: Mighty the man, and mighty was the wound. I heard my d...
Who trust your courser's strength, and not your own? Forego the vantage of your horse, alight, And...
Your plant has honor'd, which your foes profan'd, Propitious hear my pious pray'r!" He said, Nor w...
Charg'd with my message, to Camilla go, And say I sent thee to the shades below, An honor undeserv...
Our single swords the quarrel shall decide, And to the victor be the beauteous bride." He said, an...
Then, gath'ring sound, they murmur more aloud. Now, side to side, they measure with their eyes The...
Laris and Thymbrus, on the Latian plain; So wondrous like in feature, shape, and size, As caus'd a...