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Horace, Carmen Saeculare 29-32 (tr. C.E. Bennett):

Bountiful in crops and cattle, may Mother Earth deck Ceres with a crown of corn; and may Jove's wholesome rains and breezes give increase to the harvest!

fertilis frugum pecorisque Tellus
spicea donet Cererem corona;        30
nutriant fetus et aquae salubres
    et Iovis aurae.

Paul Shorey and Gordon J. Laing ad loc.:

29. fertilis frugum: so Livy, 5.34.2, Gallia ... frugum hominumque fertilis fuit. Cf. 4.6.39; and, for the blessings invoked, cf. Aesch. Suppl. 689-692; Eumen. 924-926, 938 sqq.; Psalms 94. 13. — tellus: a black sow was offered to Terra Mater on the third night [of the Ludi Saeculares].

30. spicea ... corona: cf. Δηοῖ τῇ σταχυοστεφάνῳ, Anth. Pal. 6.104.8; cf. Tibull. 1.1.15, flava Ceres tibi sit nostro de rure corona | Spicea. (At the Ambarvalia, see Pater, Marius, Chap. I.). Cf. Warton, First of April 'Fancy ... see Ceres grasp her crown of corn | And Plenty load her ample horn'; Hamlet, 5.2, 'As Peace should still her wheaten garland wear.'

31-32. cf. Catull. 62.41, (flos) quem mulcent aurae, firmat sol, educat imber. — Iovis: cf. 1.1.25. n.; Epode 2.29. — fetus: here crops.

Line 29 is quoted on an Italian stamp celebrating the 2000th aniversary of Horace's birth: