Georg. 2.109Nec vērō terrae ferre omnēs omnia possunt.Nor indeed can all lands bear all things. Georg. 2.110flūminibus salicēs crassīsque palūdibus alnī
nāscuntur, sterilēs saxōsīs montibus ornī;Willows grow by rivers, alders in thick marshes, barren manna-ashes on rocky mountains; Georg. 2.112lītora myrtētīs laetissima;shores are happiest with myrtle-groves; Georg. 2.112dēnique apertōs
Bacchus amat collīs, aquilōnem et frīgora taxī.finally, Bacchus loves open hills, the yews the north wind and the cold. Georg. 2.114Aspice et extrēmīs domitum cultōribus orbem
115Eōāsque domōs Arabum pictōsque Gelōnōs:
dīvīsae arboribus patriae.Look too at the world subdued by its farthest cultivators, the eastern homes of the Arabs and the painted Geloni: trees have their own separate homelands. Georg. 2.116Sōla India nigrum
fert ebenum, sōlīs est tūrea virga Sabaeīs.India alone bears black ebony; to the Sabaeans alone belongs the frankincense bough. Georg. 2.118Quid tibi odōrātō referam sūdantia lignō
balsamaque et bācās semper frondentis acanthī?Why should I tell you of balsams sweating from fragrant wood, and of the berries of the ever-leafy acanthus? Georg. 2.120Quid nemora Aethiopum mollī canentia lānā,
velleraque ut foliīs dēpectant tenuia Sērēs;Why of the groves of the Ethiopians, white with soft wool, and how the Seres comb fine fleeces from leaves; Georg. 2.122aut quōs Oceanō propior gerit India lūcōs,
extrēmī sinus orbis, ubi āera vincere summum
arboris haud ūllae iactū potuēre sagittae?or of the groves that India bears nearer the Ocean, the farthest nook of the world, where no arrows by their flight have ever been able to clear the air at the tree's top?
Georg. 2.125Et gēns illa quidem sūmptīs nōn tarda pharetrīs.And yet that race is not slow when it has taken up its quivers. Georg. 2.126Mēdia fert trīstīs sūcōs tardumque sapōrem
fēlīcis mālī, quō nōn praesentius ūllum,
pōcula sī quandō saevae īnfēcēre novercae,
miscuēruntque herbās et nōn innoxia verba,
130auxilium venit ac membrīs agit ātra venēna.Media bears the bitter juices and lingering taste of the blessed citron, than which no aid comes more effective, whenever cruel stepmothers have poisoned cups, and mixed in herbs and not harmless spells, and none drives black poisons from the limbs more surely. Georg. 2.131Ipsa ingēns arbōs faciemque simillima laurō;The tree itself is large, and in appearance very like the laurel; Georg. 2.132et, sī nōn alium lātē iactāret odōrem,
laurus erat;and if it did not fling abroad a different scent, it would be a laurel; Georg. 2.133folia haud ūllīs lābentia ventīs;its leaves fall in no winds; Georg. 2.134flōs ad prīma tenāx;its flower clings fast beyond all others; Georg. 2.134animās et olentia Mēdī
135ōra fovent illō et senibus medicantur anhēlīs.with it the Medes treat their breath and evil-smelling mouths, and cure old men short of breath.