Georg. 3.138Rūrsus cūrā patrum cadere et succēdere mātrum
incipit.In turn the care of the sires begins to wane and that of the mothers to take its place. Georg. 3.139Exāctīs gravidae cum mēnsibus errant,
140nōn illās gravibus quisquam iuga dūcere plaustrīs,
nōn saltū superāre viam sit passus et ācrī
carpere prāta fugā fluviōsque innāre rapācīs.When, their months completed, they wander heavy with young, let no one allow them to draw the yokes of heavy wagons, nor to leap across the road, nor to race over the meadows in swift flight and swim greedy rivers. Georg. 3.143Saltibus in vacuīs pāscunt et plēna secundum
flūmina, muscus ubi et viridissima grāmine rīpa,
145spēluncaeque tegant et saxea prōcubet umbra.Let them graze in empty glades and beside full rivers, where there is moss and the bank is greenest with grass, and let caves shelter them and a rocky shade stretch over them. Georg. 3.146Est lūcōs Silarī circā īlicibusque;There is, around the groves of Silarus and green with holm-oaks, Georg. 3.146virentem
plūrimus Alburnum volitāns, cui nōmen asīlō
Rōmānum est, oestrum Grāī vertēre vocantēs,
asper, acerba sonāns, quō tōta exterrita silvīs
150diffugiunt armenta;Alburnus, a fly flitting in swarms, whose Roman name is asilus, which the Greeks have called oestrus in their tongue, fierce, buzzing harshly, before which whole herds scatter in terror through the woods; Georg. 3.150furit mūgītibus aethēr
concussus silvaeque et siccī rīpa Tanagrī.the sky, shaken, rages with their bellowing, and the woods, and the bank of the dry Tanager.
Georg. 3.152Hōc quondam mōnstrō horribilīs exercuit īrās
Inachiae Iūnō pestem meditāta iuvencae.With this monster Juno once vented her terrible wrath, devising a plague for the heifer daughter of Inachus. Georg. 3.154Hunc quoque, nam mediīs fervōribus ācrior īnstat,
155arcēbis gravidō pecorī, armentaque pāscēs
sōle recēns ortō aut noctem dūcentibus astrīs.This too — for it presses harder in the midday heat — you will keep away from the pregnant cattle, and you will pasture the herds when the sun has just risen or when the stars bring on the night.