420Olives, by contrast, need no cultivation; 420they do not look for the curved hook and the clinging rakes, once they have taken hold in the fields and borne the breezes; 423the earth itself, when opened with the hooked tooth, supplies the plants with moisture, and heavy crops when opened with the ploughshare. 425So nurture the rich olive, pleasing to Peace.
Vergil · Georgics
Georgics 2.420–425
The easy olive
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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.