Georg. 3.1Tē quoque, magna Palēs, et tē memorande canēmus
pāstor ab Amphrȳsō, vōs, silvae amnēsque Lycaeī.You too, great Pales, we will sing, and you, shepherd of Amphrysus, worthy to be remembered, and you, woods and streams of Lycaeus. Georg. 3.3Cētera, quae vacuās tenuissent carmine mentēs,
omnia iam volgāta: quis aut Eurysthea dūrum
5aut inlaudātī nescit Būsīridis ārās?Other themes, which would have held idle minds with song, are all now commonplace: who does not know of harsh Eurystheus, or the altars of unpraised Busiris? Georg. 3.6Cui nōn dictus Hylās puer et Lātōnia Dēlos
Hippodamēque umerōque Pelops īnsignis eburnō,
ācer equīs?By whom has the boy Hylas not been told, and Latona's Delos, and Hippodame, and Pelops, marked out by his ivory shoulder, keen with horses? Georg. 3.8Temptanda via est, quā mē quoque possim
tollere humō victorque virum volitāre per ōra.I must try a path by which I too may raise myself from the ground and fly victorious on the lips of men. Georg. 3.10Prīmus ego in patriam mēcum, modo vīta supersit,
Āoniō rediēns dēdūcam vertice Mūsās;I shall be the first, if only life remains, to lead the Muses with me to my homeland, returning from the Aonian peak; Georg. 3.12prīmus Idūmaeās referam tibi, Mantua, palmās,
et viridī in campō templum dē marmore pōnam
propter aquam.I shall be the first to bring back to you, Mantua, the palms of Idumaea, and on the green plain I shall set up a temple of marble beside the water, Georg. 3.14Tardīs ingēns ubi flexibus errat
15Mincius et tenerā praetexit arundine rīpās.where the great Mincius wanders in slow windings and fringes his banks with tender reed.
Georg. 3.16In mediō mihi Caesar erit templumque tenēbit:
illī victor ego et Tyriō cōnspectus in ostrō
centum quadriiugōs agitābō ad flūmina currūs.In the middle I shall have Caesar, and he shall possess the temple: in his honour I, victorious and conspicuous in Tyrian purple, will drive a hundred four-horse chariots beside the river. Georg. 3.19Cūncta mihi Alphēum linquēns lūcōsque Molorchī
20cursibus et crūdō dēcernet Graecia caestū.For me all Greece, leaving the Alpheus and the groves of Molorchus, will contend in the races and with the rawhide gauntlet. Georg. 3.21Ipse caput tōnsae foliīs ōrnātus olīvae
dōna feram.I myself, my head adorned with leaves of the trimmed olive, will bring gifts. Georg. 3.22Iam nunc sollemnīs dūcere pompās
ad dēlūbra iuvat caesōsque vidēre iuvencōs,
vel scaena ut versīs discēdat frontibus utque
25purpurea intextī tollant aulaea Britannī.Even now it is a joy to lead the solemn processions to the shrines and to see the bullocks slain, or how the scene withdraws as its fronts revolve, and how the Britons woven into them raise the purple curtains. Georg. 3.26In foribus pugnam ex aurō solidōque elephantō
Gangaridum faciam victōrisque arma Quirīnī,
atque hīc undantem bellō magnumque fluentem
Nīlum ac nāvālī surgentīs aere columnās.On the doors I will fashion, in gold and solid ivory, the battle of the Gangarides and the arms of victorious Quirinus, and here the Nile surging with war and flowing mightily, and columns rising with the bronze of ships.
Georg. 3.30Addam urbēs Asiae domitās pulsumque Niphātēn
fīdentemque fugā Parthum versīsque sagittīs,
et duo rapta manū dīversō ex hoste tropaea
bisque triumphātās utrōque ab lītore gentēs.I will add the conquered cities of Asia, and Niphates routed, and the Parthian trusting in flight and backward-turned arrows, and two trophies snatched by hand from foes far apart, and nations twice triumphed over from either shore. Georg. 3.34Stābunt et Pariī lapidēs, spīrantia signa,
35Assaracī prōlēs dēmissaeque ab Iove gentis
nōmina, Trōsque parēns et Troiae Cynthius auctor.There will stand Parian marbles too, statues that breathe, the offspring of Assaracus and the names of the race descended from Jupiter, and father Tros, and the Cynthian founder of Troy. Georg. 3.37Invidia īnfēlīx Furiās amnemque sevērum
Cōcȳtī metuet tortōsque Ixīonis anguīs
immānemque rotam et nōn exsuperābile saxum.Wretched Envy will fear the Furies and the stern river of Cocytus, and Ixion's twisted snakes and monstrous wheel, and the stone that cannot be overcome. Georg. 3.40Intereā Dryadum silvās saltūsque sequāmur
intāctōs, tua, Maecēnās, haud mollia iussa.Meanwhile let us pursue the woods and untouched glades of the Dryads, your commands, Maecenas, and no easy ones.
Georg. 3.42Tē sine nīl altum mēns incohat;Without you my mind begins nothing lofty; Georg. 3.42ēn age segnīs
rumpe morās;come, break off sluggish delays; Georg. 3.43vocat ingentī clamōre Cithaerōn
Tāygetīque canēs domitrīxque Epidaurus equōrum
45et vōx adsēnsū nemorum ingemināta remūgit.Cithaeron calls with a mighty shout, and the hounds of Taygetus, and Epidaurus, tamer of horses, and the cry, redoubled by the assent of the groves, bellows back. Georg. 3.46Mox tamen ārdentīs accingar dīcere pugnās
Caesaris et nōmen fāma tot ferre per annōs,
Tīthōnī prīmā quot abest ab orīgine Caesar.Yet soon I shall gird myself to tell of the fiery battles of Caesar, and to carry his name in fame through as many years as Caesar is distant from the first origin of Tithonus.