1Next I shall go on to the heavenly gifts of airborne honey: look on this part too, Maecenas. 3I shall tell you of marvellous spectacles of tiny things, great-hearted leaders, and in due order the customs, pursuits, peoples and battles of a whole nation. 6The labour is on a slight theme; 6but not slight the glory, if hostile powers allow a man, and Apollo hears when he is called.
Vergil · Georgics
Georgics 4.1–7
Invocation to Maecenas: the bees
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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.