Georg. 4.219Hīs quīdam signīs atque haec exempla secūtī
220esse apibus partem dīvīnae mentis et haustūs
aetheriōs dīxēre;Following these signs and these examples, some have said that the bees have a share of the divine mind and draughts of the upper air; Georg. 4.221deum namque īre per omnēs
terrāsque tractūsque maris caelumque profundum.for God, they say, pervades all lands and the tracts of the sea and the depths of the sky. Georg. 4.223Hinc pecudēs, armenta, virōs, genus omne ferārum,
quemque sibi tenuēs nāscentem arcessere vītās;From him flocks, herds, men, every kind of wild beast, each at its birth draws for itself its slender life; Georg. 4.225scīlicet hūc reddī deinde ac resolūta referrī
omnia nec mortī esse locum, sed vīva volāre
sīderis in numerum atque altō succēdere caelō.to him, surely, all things are then returned and, when dissolved, brought back, nor is there room for death, but alive they fly up to be numbered among the stars and rise to the high heaven.
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Vergil · Georgics
Georgics 4.219–227
The bees and the divine mind
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Latin vocabulary for this passage (55 words)
| hic, haec, hoc, dem. pron. | this; ille ... hīc, that ... this, the former ... the latter |
| quīdam, quaedam, quoddam, indef. pron. | a certain, certain |
| signum, -ī, n. | sign, signal |
| atque, ac (conj.) | and; after comparisons: as, than (ac only before consonants) |
| exemplum, -ī n. | example, precedent |
| sequor, sequī, secūtus | follow |
| sum, esse, fuī, futūrus | be |
| apis, -is f. | bee |
| pars, partis, f. | part, side, direction |
| dīvīnus, -a, -um | divine, of the gods |
| mēns, mentis f. | mind, spirit |
| et, conj. | and; et ... et, both ... and |
| haustus, -ūs m. | a drawing (of water); a draught, drink |
| aetherius, -a, -um | of the upper air, heavenly |
| dīcō, dīcere, dīxī, dictus | say, speak; diem dīcere, to appoint or set a day |
| deus, -ī, m. | god |
| namque, conj. | for |
| eō, īre, iī, itus | go |
| per, prep, with ace. | through, by means of |
| omnis, -e | all, every |
| terra, -ae, f. | land, earth |
| que, enclitic conj. | and |
| tractus, -ūs m. | a drawing out; stretch, extent; line (of trees) |
| mare, maris, n. | sea |
| caelum, -ī, n. | heaven, sky |
| profundus, -a, -um | deep |
| hinc, adv. | from this place, hence |
| pecus, pecudis, f. | head of cattle, beast, sheep, goat |
| armentum, -ī n. | herd (of cattle) |
| vir, virī, m. | man |
| genus, generis, n. | kind, nature |
| fera, -ae, f. | wild animal, beast |
| quisque, quaeque, quidque, indef. pron. | each |
| suī, sibi, sē or sēsē, reflexive pron. | himself, herself, itself, themselves |
| tenuis, -e | thin |
| nāscor, -ī, nātus sum | be born; rise, begin |
| arcessō, -ere, -īvī, -ītus | call, summon, fetch |
| vīta, -ae, f. | life |
| scīlicet, adv. | of course, naturally, evidently |
| hūc, adv. | to this place, hither |
| reddō, -dere, -didī, -ditus | give back, return, restore; render |
| deinde, adv. | then, next |
| resolvō, -ere, -solvī, -solūtus | untie, loosen; release; break (bonds, oaths) |
| referō, referre, rettulī, relātus | bring or carry back, return; pedem referre, to draw back, retire, retreat; grātiam referre, see grātia |
| neque or nec, conj. | and not, nor; neque ... neque, neither ... nor; neque enim, for ... not |
| mors, mortīs, f. | death |
| locus, -ī, m., plur. loca, -orum, n. | place, situation |
| sed, conj. | but |
| vīvus, -a, -um | alive, living |
| volō, -āre, -āvī, -ātūrus | fly |
| sīdus, -eris n. | star, constellation |
| in, prep. with acc. and abl. | with acc.: into, onto, against; with abl.: in, on |
| numerus, -ī, m. | number |
| altus, -a, -um | high, deep; altum, -ī, n., the deep |
| succēdō, -cēdere, -cessī, -cessus | go or come under, follow after, succeed |
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.