Georg. 2.346Quod superest, quaecumque premēs virgulta per agrōs,
sparge fimō pinguī et multā memor occule terrā,
aut lapidem bibulum aut squālentīs īnfode conchās;For 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; Georg. 2.349inter enim lābentur aquae tenuisque subībit
350hālitus atque animōs tollent sata;for the waters will slip in between, a fine vapour will steal beneath, and the plants will take heart; Georg. 2.350iamque repertī,
quī saxō super atque ingentis pondere testae
urgērent;and men have been found before now who would press them down with a stone and the weight of a huge potsherd; Georg. 2.352hoc effūsōs mūnīmen ad imbrīs,
hoc, ubi hiulca sitī findit canis aestifer arva.this is a defence against pouring rains, this for when the heat-bringing Dog Star splits the fields gaping with thirst.
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Georgics 2.346–353
Protecting newly planted slips
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| quī, quae, quod, rel. pron. | who, which |
| supersum, -esse, -fuī | be over or left, remain |
| quīcumque, quaecumque, quodcumque | whoever, whatever |
| premō, premere, pressī, pressus | press, check, restrain |
| virgultum, -ī n. | brushwood, thicket |
| per, prep, with ace. | through, by means of |
| ager, agri, m. | field, land |
| spargō, spargere, sparsī, sparsus | scatter, sprinkle |
| fimus, -ī m. | dung, dirt, filth |
| pinguis, -e | fat |
| et, conj. | and; et ... et, both ... and |
| multus, -a, -um | much, great; plur., many |
| memor, -oris | mindful, remembering (+ gen.) |
| occulō, -ere, -culuī, -cultum | hide, conceal |
| terra, -ae, f. | land, earth |
| aut, conj. | or; aut ... aut, either ... or |
| lapis, -idis, m. | stone |
| squāleō, -ēre | be rough or stiff; be filthy, unkempt |
| īnfodiō, -ere, -fōdī, -fossus | dig in, bury |
| concha, -ae f. | shell; shellfish (source of purple dye) |
| inter, prep, with acc. | among, between |
| enim, conj. | for |
| lābor, lābī, lapsus | slip, glide, fall |
| aqua, -ae, f. | water |
| tenuis, -e | thin |
| que, enclitic conj. | and |
| subeō, -īre, -iī, -itus | go under; undergo, submit to, sustain, bear, endure |
| hālitus, -ūs m. | breath |
| atque, ac (conj.) | and; after comparisons: as, than (ac only before consonants) |
| animus, -ī, m. | mind; heart; spirit, courage |
| tollō, tollere, sustulī, sublātus | lift, raise; take away, remove; ancorās tollere, to weigh anchor |
| satum, -ī n. (usu. pl. sata) | sown field, crop |
| iam, adv. | now, already |
| reperiō, reperīre, repperī, repertus | find, discover |
| saxum, -ī, n. | rock, stone |
| super (prep. + acc. or abl.; also adv.) | over, above, on top of; upon; about, concerning |
| ingēns, -gentis, adj. | huge, vast |
| pondus, ponderis, n. | weight |
| testa, -ae f. | piece of broken pottery, potsherd |
| urgeō, -ēre, ursī | press hard |
| hic, haec, hoc, dem. pron. | this; ille ... hīc, that ... this, the former ... the latter |
| effundō, -fundere, -fūdī, -fūsus | pour out |
| mūnīmen, -inis n. | defence, protection; fortification |
| ad, prep. with acc. | to, toward; at, near; for |
| imber, imbris, m. | rain, shower |
| ubi, adv. | where; conj., when |
| hiulcus, -a, -um | gaping, split open, cracked |
| sitis, -is f. | thirst |
| findō, -ere, fidī, fissus | split, cleave |
| canis, -is, m. and f. | dog |
| aestifer, -era, -erum | bringing heat, sultry |
| arvum, -ī n. | ploughed field, field |
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.