Tende petens pacem, et faciles venerare Napaas.
Namque dabunt veniam votis, irasque remittent.
Sed, modus orandi qui sit, prius ordine dicam.
Quatuor eximios præstanti corpore tauros,
Qui tibi nunc viridis depascunt summa Lycæi,
Delige, et intacta totidem cervice juvencas.
Quatuor his aras alta ad delubra Dearum

Constitue, et sacrum jugulis demitte cruorem:
Corporaque ipsa boum frondoso desere luco.
Post, ubi nona suos Aurora ostenderit ortus;
Inferias Orphei Lethæa papavera mittes,
Placatam Eurydicen vitula venerabere cæsa,
Et nigram mactabis ovem, lucumque revises."
Haud mora: continuo matris præcepta facessit :
Ad delubra venit; monstratas excitat aras;
Quatuor eximios præstanti corpore tauros
Ducit, et intacta totidem cervice juvencas.
Post, ubi nona suos Aurora induxerat ortus,
Inferias Orphei mittit, lucumque revisit.
Hic vero subitum ac dictu mirabile monstrum
Aspiciunt; liquefacta boum per viscera toto
Stridere apes utero, et ruptis effervere costis ;
Immensasque trahi nubes: jamque arbore summa
Confluere, et lentis uvam demittere ramis.
Hæc super arvorum cultu

pecorumque canebam,

Napaas.] The Napææ are the same with the Dryades.

Inferias.] The inferia were sacrifices offered to the Manes. Uvam.] See the note on book ii. ver. 60.

Hæc super, &c.] Virgil hav

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ing now finished this noble poem, takes care to inform the reader of the time when it was written, and of the name of the author, asserting it to himself, that no future plagiary might pretend to so great an honour.

Et super arboribus: Cæsar dum magnus ad altum
Fulminat Euphraten bello, victorque volentes
Per populos dat jura, viamque adfectat Olympo.
Illo Virgilium me tempore dulcis alebat
Parthenope, studiis florentem ignobilis oti:
Carmina qui lusi pastorum, audaxque juventa,
Tityre, te patulæ cecini sub tegmine fagi.

Cæsar dum magnus, &c.]— These lines are a fresh argument, that Virgil continued the care of his Georgicks as long as he lived, for the time here mentioned is the year before his death. It was then that Augustus Cæsar was at the head of the Roman legions in person, on the banks of the Euphrates, and compelled Phraates to restore the eagles which the Parthians had taken from Crassus ;

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and drew the neighbouring nations, and even the Indians, to make a voluntary submission to him. See the notes on ver. 27. 30. book iii.

Parthenope.] This was the name of an ancient city, which, when rebuilt, was called Naples.

Audaxque juventa.] According to Servius, Virgil was twenty-eight years old when he wrote his eclogues.

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VOCABULARY.

ABI

ABI-ES, ETIS, f. a pine-tree, G. ii. 68.
accingor, v. 3. prepared for, G. iii, 46.

accipio, v. 3. I gather, G. iv. 172.

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ac-er, ris, re, ac-ris, re, swift, G. iii. 8. provident, diligent, G. ii.

405.

acerv-us, i, m. an heap, a stack, G. i. 158, 185.

aci-es, éi, f. an army, G. 1. 480.

actus, par. dispersed, G. iii. 482. past, G. i. 413.

acuo, v. 3. I rouse, G. iv. 435.

adeo, adv. chiefly, G. i. 24.

adversus, adj. adverse-adverso flumine, against the stream, G. i.
201.

æd-es, is, f. a bee-hive, G. iv. 258.

æg-er, ra, rum, adj. sick at heart, E. i. 13. painful, G. iii. 512.
pining, G. iv. 464.

æquus, adj. kind, G. ii. 225. wholesome, G. iii. 546.

a-er, eris, m. the air, the top (of a tree,) G. ii. 123.

æs, æris, n. money, E. i. 36. a drum, G. iv. 151. armour, G. ii. 282.
a brazen statue, G. i. 480. a vessel, G. iii. 363.

æst-as, atis, f. the spring, G. iii. 296. a year, G. iv. 207. the air, G. iv.
59.

æth-er, eris, m. Jupiter, G. ii. 325.

ag-ens, entis, par. moving or drawing, G. iv. 510. pursuing, G. iii.

412.

aggredior, v. 3. I aspire to, E. iv. 48. seize, G. iv. 404.

agito, v. 1. I manage, treat of, G. iii. 287.

agm-en, inis, n. a swarm, G. iv. 59. a flood, spout, G. i. 322. the
winding of a serpent, G. iii. 423.

ago, v. 3. I disperse, G. i. 421. I spread, G. ii. 364. I throw off, G. iii.
203. I turn about, G. ii. 392.

almus, adj. pregnant, G. ii. 330.
alo, v. 3. I propagate, G. i. 22.

B

alt-um, i, n. the top (of a tree,) G. ii. 210.

alve-us, i, m. the hollow trunk of a tree, G. ii. 453.

amarus. adj. briny, G. ii. 238. iv. 431.

anim-us, i, m. thought, G. iv. 132. desire, appetite, G. iii. 521.

memory, E. ix. 51. nature, G. ii. 51.

antr-um, i, n. a den, cave, grotto, an hollow trunk, G. iv. 44.

apto, v. 1. I set, G. ii. 359.

aptus, adj. fastened together, G. iii. 168.

arbust-um, i, n. a vineyard, G. ii. 416.

ardeo, v. 2. I love earnestly, E. ii. 1.

argutus, adj. whistling, whispering, E. vii. 1. viii. 22. G. i. 294. aridus, adj. shrill, crashing, G. i. 357.

arist-a, æ, f. a year, E. i. 70.

arm-a, arum, n. pl. utensils, instruments, implements, G. i. 160. armatus, par. manned, G. i. 255.

arv-um, i, n. soil, womb, G. iii. 136.

Asius, adj. Asian, of Asia, a lake and town near the river Cayster, G. i. 383. iv. 343.

atque, con. forthwith, G. iii. 526.

auct-or, oris, m. et f. a donor, giver, G. i. 27. prognostic, G. i. 432. aven-a, æ, f. (met.) a pipe, an humble strain, E. i. 2. x. 51. aul-a, æ, f. un honeycomb, G. iv. 202.

Bacchatus, par. danced over by Bacchanals, G. ii. 487.

bid-ens, entis, m. an hoe, a mattock, G. ii. 355, 400.

bonus, adj. skilful, E. v. 1.

brachi-um, i, n. the tendrils of a vine, G. ii. 368. a claw, G. i. 34. brum-a, æ, f. the winter-solstice, G. i. 211.

Cado, v. 3. I am neglected, G. iii. 138. calath-us, i, m. milk-pan, G. iii. 402.

can-is, is, m. et f. a dog-fish, (sea-dog,) E. vi. 77. the dog-star, G. i. 218. ii. 353.

cano, v. 3. I croak, G. i. 378.

capistr-um, i, n. a muzzle, G. iii. 399.

capto, v. 1. I snuff, G. i. 376.

captus, par. pleased, delighted, G. iv. 348.

cap-ut, itis, n. root (of a tree,) G. ii. 355.

carm-en, inis, n. an epitaph or inscription, E. v. 42.

carpo, v. 3. I eat, G. iii. 296. I browse upon, E. i. 79. I spin, G. iv.

335. I fan, G. iv. 311.

castr-a, orum, pl. n. a bee-hive, G. iv. 108.

cav-a, æ, f. a bee-hive, G. iv. 58.

cavus, adj. full of holes, G. iv. 44.

cell-a, æ, f. a honeycomb, G. iv. 164.

certam-en, inis, n. a prize, G. ii. 530.

certus, adj. distinct, determinate, G. i. 60, 231.

cingo, v. 3. I crown, E. vii. 28.

circul-us, i, m. a collar, G. iii. 166.

clam-or, oris, m. humming, G. iv. 76.
claustr-um, i, n. a mole, a dam, G. ii. 161.

coactus, par. I collected, E. vi. 30.

cœruleus, adj. green, G. i. 236. livid, G. i. 453.

cogo, v. 3. I thicken, G. iv. 36.

colo, v. 3. I preserve, E. iii. 61.

col-or, oris, m. the outward shew or beauty, E. ii. 17.

com-a, æ, f. leaves, G. iv. 137. boughs, tendrils, G. ii. 368.

compesco, v. 3. 1 prune, lop off, G. ii. 370.

compositus, par. regular, G. iii. 192. trimmed, G. iv. 417.
concedo, v. 3. farewell, E. x. 63.

congestus, par. I covered, E. i. 69. I filled, G. iv. 243.
conj-ux, ugis, m. et f. a lover, E. viii. 66.
conspectus, par. conspicuous, remarkable.
consumo, v. 3. I spend, drain, G. iii. 178.

convello, v. 3. I unloose, G. i. 457.

cornu, n. inv. cornu-a, um, pl. n. the bendings, divided streams, or
arms of a river, G. iv. 371.

coron-a, æ, f. a constellation, G. i. 222.

corono, v. 1. I fill to the brim, G. ii. 528.

corripio, v. 3. I rush along, G. iii. 104.

cos, cotis, f. a ragged rock or cliff, E. viii. 43. G. iv. 203.

cubil-e, is, n. a bee-hive, G. iv. 45, 243. a nest, G. i. 411. an ox-
stall, G. iii. 230. a mole-lodge, G. i. 183.

cujus, adj. whose, E. iii. 1. v. 87.

culp-a, æ, f. a disease, or infected sheep, G. iii. 468.

cult-um, i, n. pl. fields, meadows, G. iv. 372. trees, G. ii. 196.'
cult-us, ûs, m. management, G. i. 3. iv. 559.

cumul-us, i. m. ridges, G. i. 105.

cunabul-a, orum, pl. n. an hive, G. iv. 66.

cur-a, æ, f. business, province, G. iv. 178. cultivation, G. i. 228. toil,
G. ii. 439. I desire, G. iii. 112. I delight, darling, E. i. 58. G. iv.
354.

curr-us, ûs, m. the wheel (of a plough,) G. i. 174.

Damno, v. 1. I oblige, bind to do a thing, E. v. 80.

deduco, v. 3. I drain, G. i. 114, 269. I launch, G. i. 255.

deductus, par. humble, slender, E. vi. 5.

defrut-a, orum, n. sub. wine boiled down to half its quantity, G. iv.
269.

degenero, v. 1. I grow wild, G. ii. 59.

dens, dentis, m. a plough-share, G. ii. 423. the point, edge, G. i.
262. a pruning knife or hook, G. ii. 406.

depulsus, par. I weaned, E. iii. 82. vii. 15. G. iii. 187.

differo, v. irr. I dissipate, G. iii. 197. I plant, set (trees in a row,)
G. iv. 144.

digestus, par. set, transplanted, G. ii. 54. set in lines, G. ii. 267.
dilapsus, par. rotting, G. iii. 557.

discurro, v. 3. to run, discharge (itself,) G. iv. 292.