339Why should I follow in verse the shepherds of Libya, their pastures, and their huts inhabited, with dwellings few and far between? 341Often day and night and a whole month on end the flock grazes and goes into long wastes without any shelter: so far does the plain stretch. 343The African herdsman takes everything with him, his roof and household god, his arms, his Amyclaean dog and Cretan quiver; 346just as the keen Roman in his country's arms takes the road under an unfair load, and stands in line, his camp pitched, before the foe expects him.
Vergil · Georgics
Georgics 3.339–348
The herdsmen of Libya
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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.