Virgil's Georgics
Contributors: Janet Lembke (Translator)
Edition: 1 edition
Series: The Yale New Classics Series
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: December 5, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780300119862
Subjects: Poetry texts & anthologies; BCE to c 500 CE; Poetry; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Classics; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; American - General
First sentence: What makes the crops rejoice, Maecenas, under what stars to plow and marry the vines to their arbor of elms, what care the cattle need, what tending the flocks must have, how much practical knowledge to keep frugal bees  here I start my song.