Thursday, April 20, 2023
Beneath the Soil
Vergil, Georgics 1.493-497 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough):
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Yea, and a time shall come when in those lands,
as the farmer toils at the soil with crooked plough,
he shall find javelins eaten up with rusty mould,
or with his heavy hoes shall strike on empty helms,
and marvel at the giant bones in the upturned graves.
scilicet et tempus veniet, cum finibus illis
agricola incurvo terram molitus aratro
exesa inveniet scabra robigine pila, 495
aut gravibus rastris galeas pulsabit inanis,
grandiaque effossis mirabitur ossa sepulcris.
