354When the slips are set, it remains to draw the earth often round their heads and to swing the hard mattocks, or to work the soil under the pressing ploughshare and to steer the straining bullocks among the very vineyards; 358then to fit smooth reeds and shafts of peeled rod, and ash stakes and sturdy forks, by whose strength they may learn to climb, to scorn the winds, and to follow the tiers up through the tops of the elms.
Vergil · Georgics
Georgics 2.354–361
Hoeing and staking the vines
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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.