The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil . eight being placed uponit. It served the purpose of both separating the grain and cuttingthe straw. The trahea, or traha, was either entirely of stone, ormade of the trunk of a tree. Both the tribulum and trahea are stillused in Greece, Asia Minor, Georgia, and Syria, and are describedby various travellers in those countries. {Diet. Antiq., s. v.) Et iniquo pondere rastri. And rakes of disproportioned weight,i. e., of a weight almost exceeding human strength to raster bidens, or two-pronged rake, was the one most commonlyemployed. It was used to
The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil . eight being placed uponit. It served the purpose of both separating the grain and cuttingthe straw. The trahea, or traha, was either entirely of stone, ormade of the trunk of a tree. Both the tribulum and trahea are stillused in Greece, Asia Minor, Georgia, and Syria, and are describedby various travellers in those countries. {Diet. Antiq., s. v.) Et iniquo pondere rastri. And rakes of disproportioned weight,i. e., of a weight almost exceeding human strength to raster bidens, or two-pronged rake, was the one most commonlyemployed. It was used to upturn the soil, and thus to perform, ona small scale, the part of a plough; but it was much more com-monly employed in the work called occatio, that is, the breakingdown of the clods after ploughing. Hence it was heavy (iniquopondere). The following wood-cut, taken from a funereal monu-ment at Rome, represents a rustic holding a raster bidens. Theother instruments are the falx, and pala, or spade. NOTES ON THE GEORGICS. BOOK I. 241. 165-168. Virgea praterea Celei, &c. Besides these, the cheaposier furniture of Celeus, i. «., baskets, cheese-crates, &c, allmade out of osiers and other cheap or common materials, and theart itself of making which was taught by Ceres to Celeus, thefather of Triptolemus. Virgea agrees with supellex. Some referit to vasa understood, which is far less poetical, and quite unneces-sary.— ArbutecB crates. The same with the viminea. crates mention-ed in line 95.—Mystica vannus Iacchi. The mystic fan of Bac-chus. The vannus, or winnowing fan, was a broad basket intowhich the corn, mixed with chaff, was received after threshing,and was then thrown in the direction of the wind. It thus perform-ed with greater effect and convenience the office of the winnowingshovel. Virgil dignifies this simple instrument by calling it mysticavannus Iacchi. The rites of Bacchus, as well as those of Ceres,having a continual reference to the occupations of rural life, t
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