1Thus far the tilling of fields and the stars of the sky; now you, Bacchus, shall I sing, and with you too the woodland thickets and the offspring of the slow-growing olive. 4Come here, father Lenaeus — here all things are full of your gifts; for you the field blooms, laden with vine-leaved autumn, and the vintage foams in brimming vats — come here, father Lenaeus, and, pulling off your buskins, dip your bared legs with me in the new must.
Vergil · Georgics
Georgics 2.1–8
Invocation to Bacchus
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Vergil, Georgics. Latin text: J. B. Greenough, The Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Virgil (Boston, 1881), public domain; digital text from the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA. Word analysis: drafted by our own tagger (trained on the hand-checked texts on this site), with every doubtful word checked by hand. English translation and section titles: written for this app, each checked against the Latin by a second reader.