Farra Deæ, micæque licet salientis honorem
Detis: et in veteres turea grana focos.
Et, si thura aberant, unctas accendite tædas.
Parva bonæ Cereri, sint modo casta, placent.
A Bove succincti cultros removete ministri:
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Apta jugo cervix non est ferienda securi:
Vivat, et in durâ sæpe laboret humo.
And the fine picture of Virgil of the agricultural life in the ideal “Golden Age,” in which slaughter for food and war was unknown:—
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