The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil . d the Geoponica, xviii., 3, where a similar rule is laiddown.—Consument ubera tola. Will expend the entire contentsof their udders. 179-186. Sin magis studium. But if inclination prompt you rath-er.—Turmasque. And troops of horse. Each turma consistedof thirty men, and was divided into three decuria.—Alphca fiuminaPisa. The Alphean streams of Pisa. The Alpheus flowed bythe city of Pisa, and the Olympic games were celebrated on itsbanks.—Jovis in luco. Alluding to the sacred grove Altis, at Olym-pia, planted, as legends tell, by Hercules, and which he dedic
The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil . d the Geoponica, xviii., 3, where a similar rule is laiddown.—Consument ubera tola. Will expend the entire contentsof their udders. 179-186. Sin magis studium. But if inclination prompt you rath-er.—Turmasque. And troops of horse. Each turma consistedof thirty men, and was divided into three decuria.—Alphca fiuminaPisa. The Alphean streams of Pisa. The Alpheus flowed bythe city of Pisa, and the Olympic games were celebrated on itsbanks.—Jovis in luco. Alluding to the sacred grove Altis, at Olym-pia, planted, as legends tell, by Hercules, and which he dedicatedto Jupiter. In a part of this grove was the race-course.—Primuscqui labor. The first labour of the steed, i. e., the first thing tobe learned by the steed.—Animos. The fierceness.— lituus, or clarion, was peculiar to cavalry ; the tuba, to infan- 360 NOTES ON THE GEORGICS. BOOK III. try. The tuba was straight; the lituus was slightly curved at theextremity, as in the following wood-cut from Fabretti •. Tractugue gemcntcm, &c. And to bear with the wheel that rat-tles as it is dragged along.—Et stabulo frenos, &c. Varro, also,says that colts should be accustomed to the sight of bridles hang-ing in their stalls, and also to the sound of them when rattled.—Blandis laudibus. The coaxing praises.—Plausa cervicis. Ofhis patted neck. 187-189. Atque h<zc jam primo, &c. And these things let himventure to do, when now first weaned, &c, i. e., as soon asweaned. Observe here the peculiar force of jam primo, equivalent,in fact, to statim ac.—Audeat. We have given this reading withHeyne and Voss. The common text has audiat. — Inque vicem de-tmollibus, &c. And let him yield his mouth by turns to the softhalter, i. e., and let him change about, and become accustomed,also, to the halter.—Inscius avi. Not confident in his the horse has attained the age which imparts vigour, he maybe termed conscius atalis: before he has attained that a
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