Cover Image: A Greek gold ring, 3rd c. BC. Getty Museum 85.AM.278. Inscription: E Φ (short for Ephesos), one letter on either side of head of bee. Image credit: Getty Museum.

This commentary has been designed to aid the most inexperienced readers of Latin poetry. It includes a Latin text with macrons, conforming to that of Mynors (Oxford, 1969), notes, and running vocabulary lists.

Vergil’s fourth Georgic poetically discusses the honeybee hive, its “customs, activities, peoples and wars” (mōrēs et studia et populōs et proelia). It also contains a memorable account of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

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Tertullian is such an underrated author. Guy could turn a phrase.

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