384If wool is your care, first let rough brushwood, burrs and caltrops, be absent; 385avoid rich pastures; 386and from the start choose flocks white with soft fleeces. 387But that ram, though he himself is pure white, if only his tongue is black beneath his moist palate, reject, lest he darken the fleeces of the young with dusky spots, and look round for another over the crowded field. 391With such a snowy gift of wool, if it is worth believing, Pan, god of Arcadia, captured and beguiled you, Moon, calling you into the deep woods; 393nor did you spurn his call.
Vergil · Georgics
Georgics 3.384–393
Breeding for white wool
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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.