559This I sang of the care of fields and of flocks and of trees, while mighty Caesar was thundering in war by the deep Euphrates, and as victor was giving laws to willing peoples and setting out on the path to Olympus. 563At that time sweet Parthenope was nurturing me, Vergil, as I flourished in the pursuits of inglorious ease, I who played at shepherds' songs and, bold in youth, sang of you, Tityrus, under the cover of a spreading beech.
Vergil · Georgics
Georgics 4.559–566
The poet signs off
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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.