Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-tf8b9 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-22T04:16:19.944Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Martins and Swallows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

W. Geoffrey Arnott
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

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
Information
Greece & Rome , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , April 1967 , pp. 52
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1967

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)