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Martins and Swallows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Extract

In Book iv of the Georgics, Virgil prescribes the beginning of spring as the time for producing bees abiogenetically: hoc geritur Zephyris primum impellentibus undas,

ante nouis rubeant quam prata coloribus, ante

garrula quam tignis nidum suspendat hirundo. (305–7)

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1967

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