394But let whoever loves milk bring tree-medick and plenty of lotus and salted herbs to the stalls with his own hand. 396From this they both love the streams more and stretch their udders more, and give back a hidden taste of salt in the milk. 398Many keep the kids from their mothers once they are weaned, and fit their mouths in front with iron-spiked muzzles. 400What they have milked at sunrise and in the daylight hours, they press at night; 401what at dusk and sunset, the shepherd carries off in baskets at dawn — he goes to the towns; 403or they touch it with a little salt and lay it by for winter.
Vergil · Georgics
Georgics 3.394–403
Milk and cheese
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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.