346For the rest, whatever slips you plant through your fields, spread them with rich dung, and remember to cover them with plenty of earth, or bury porous stone or rough shells; 349for the waters will slip in between, a fine vapour will steal beneath, and the plants will take heart; 350and men have been found before now who would press them down with a stone and the weight of a huge potsherd; 352this is a defence against pouring rains, this for when the heat-bringing Dog Star splits the fields gaping with thirst.
Vergil · Georgics
Georgics 2.346–353
Protecting newly planted slips
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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.