A Translation of the First Book of the Georgics of Virgil, in Blank Verse, with Notes. by R. Hoblyn

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ... The levell'd floor let heavy rollers press, Shap'd on its surface by the forming hand, . And well-secur'd by lime's tenacious hold; Lest in the sunder'd chinks the weeds arise. Then frequent plagues obtrude; the tiny mouse His domicil appoints and garner stores s 230 Or the mole pin-ey'd mines his burrow'd den: Or toads are cavern'd found, arid insect tribes Rise from the teeming earth in countless swarms. The weevil populates the wasted heap; And emmets mindful of the wants of age. 235 different opinion, as quoted by La Cerda; "Certe Quinctil. L. viii. c. 3; et Virgilium miratur, qui versum absolvit apte nimis ad exiguitatem muris versu ipso exprimendam; et ait Horatium ad exemplar Virgilii siium finivisse, naseetur ridiculus mus: De Arte Poet. v. 139." V. 183. Talpae. L. 231. The mole. Captus oculis does not mean that the mole is totally devoid of sight, but that its eyes are inferior in size to those of other animals., ' V. 185. Monstra. L. 232. Insect tribes. Thus Aratus, . v. 958; Ka/ itXaZpi/.mi ax'Jinxct KSmi Tovs xaKzovai Axirns iiitpoc yalris. (" Atque obeuntes vermes Illi, quos vocant atrae intestina terrae.") V. 186. Curculio. L. 234; The weevil. The weevil in its "larva" state is very voracious, and destructive in the granary; its numbers consume a vast quantity of corn; and taint and spoil as much as they. Contemplate item cum se nux plurima silvis Induet in florem, et ramos curvabit olentes: Si superant fetus, pariter frumenta sequentur, devour: it breeds very fast in the summer months. Ingens in the construction is to be transferred from the heap of corn to the great numbers of the weevils: they may well be said to populate the mass, since they exist in it in all their states of change, from the egg and voracious maggot, to...